Oregon’s Timber Harvest Dropped In 2015

A slowdown in log exports to Asia, the end of a trade deal between the United States and Canada, and a busy fire season all contributed to a roughly 8 percent decline in Oregon’s timber harvest last year. Loggers cut 3.79 billion board feet of timber last year from...

U.S. BLM Plans To Increase Oregon Timber Harvest

New plans released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) would increase logging on the agency’s 2.5 million acres west of the Cascades summit — but don’t expect more chain saws to fire up anytime soon. As expected, the BLM plan ran into an immediate...

New Growth, New Timber Harvests In Oregon

New management for 400,000 acres of timberland in Klamath County means the region can expect to experience new growth in the timber industry. Green Diamond Resource Co., the timber company that purchased several thousand acres of land last year from the Klamath Falls...

Senate OKs Oregon Timber County Payments Extension

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised the Senate’s move Tuesday night to extend a lifeline to rural Oregon communities with final passage of a two-year renewal of the Secure Rural Schools program. “This extension ends months of uncertainty for Oregon’s rural communities,...