by Web Editor | Feb 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s timber industry hasn’t exactly been robust. You can see the charts showing a steady decline, read environmentalists’ 2015 plans to increase state authority over the industry or listen to conventional wisdom that says people just don’t...
by Web Editor | Jan 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
Environmentalists want to stop an Oregon logging project they claim is a “test case” for clear-cutting trees on the verge of becoming “old growth” stands. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved logging on 187 acres near Myrtle Creek, Ore., as part of the “White...
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...
by Web Editor | Jul 18, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Oregon timber harvest rose to 4.2 billion board feet last year, marking four straight years of improvement from the recession low of 2.72 billion board feet in 2009, the Oregon Department of Forestry said Tuesday. “This was the first harvest above four...
by Web Editor | Apr 14, 2014 | News, News/PR
The state of Oregon will consider selling the whole Elliott State Forest, where legal battles over logging and protections for threatened species have reduced revenues for schools. Jim Paul, assistant director of the Department of State Lands, said Friday the forest...