by Web Editor | Mar 27, 2017 | News, News/PR
There’s a tiny stretch of land in Northeastern Oregon that can inspire lofty descriptions like this: “An amazing treasure,” said Peter Barry, who lives in Joseph, Oregon. “I don’t want to extol its virtues too much because it’s already so crowded.” The Lostine...
by Web Editor | Sep 9, 2016 | News, News/PR
The nine forest specialists had expected to drive into the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest on a kind of a rescue mission. They never made it that Monday morning in August. Instead, they had to watch as wildfire swept through the very woods they hoped to save with...
by Web Editor | Dec 5, 2014 | News, News/PR
A team of experts charged with accelerating the pace of Oregon forest restoration and heading off big fires in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon is proposing a 10-year effort to thin the underbrush in a 100,000-acre area. The proposal is a result of a decision a...
by Web Editor | May 14, 2014 | News, News/PR
A major Oregon timber project in a Northeastern national forest will be enjoined, but the impact on logging remains unclear. A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Forest Service unlawfully approved the 29,000-acre project in Oregon’s Wallowa-Whitman National...
by Web Editor | Apr 18, 2014 | News, News/PR
A federal judge has shot down several environmentalist arguments against a 2,000-acre Oregon thinning project in the Mount Hood National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service found that thinning was necessary for forest health but the Bark environmental group filed a...
