by Web Editor | Jul 2, 2018 | News, News/PR
Sales of timber in stands charred in last summer’s Chetco Bar Fire could be sold as early as next month as the Forest Service this week formalized its salvage plans for the 191,197-acre fire area in southwest Oregon. The forest’s final Chetco Bar Salvage Project...
by Web Editor | Sep 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
Baker County Commissioner Bill Harvey says that the federal government needs to get to work on a plan for salvage logging to quickly cut the timber left standing by area wildfires. “What they’ve done in the past is they’ve not logged them and they are allowed to fall...
by Web Editor | Nov 12, 2014 | News, News/PR
Wildfires scorched nearly 1.5 million acres in Oregon, Washington and Idaho this year. And with increased demand for timber from lumber mills, there is a growing market for scorched trees. Time is of the essence in post-fire salvage. Fungus, bugs and rot degrade dead...
by Web Editor | Oct 31, 2014 | News, News/PR
Spiky clumps of Oregon grape are just beginning to emerge in a sea of brown needles, charred bark and blackened rock blanketing southwestern Klamath County. “It burned hot,” said Andy Geissler, pointing to naked trees and gnarled shrubs that were scorched in the...