by Web Editor | Jan 20, 2014 | News, News/PR
Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced the Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the O&C Lands Act of 2013 on February 6. The bill will double the timber harvest on O&C Lands in 18 Oregon counties, giving mills and rural communities a...
by Web Editor | Jan 10, 2014 | News, News/PR
A federal judge Wednesday upheld the U.S. Forest Service’s decision for an Oregon timber harvest project in the Umatilla National Forest. “The Forest Service properly analyzed the environmental impacts of the proposed project and ensured compliance with the numerous...
by Web Editor | Dec 20, 2013 | News, News/PR
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden is introducing his long-awaited timber bill to promote logging on national forests in Eastern Oregon. The Oregon Democrat’s Senate Natural Resources Committee is to take up the bill today. Timber industry and conservation groups that had...
by Web Editor | Nov 27, 2013 | News, News/PR
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a forest bill that sets the stage for sweeping changes in the management of 2.1 million acres of federal forest in Western Oregon. The bill attempts to resolve decades of lawsuits over the Bureau of Land Management’s so-called...
by Web Editor | Oct 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
It’s a battle against time for Oregon wildfire damaged trees burned by last summer’s Barry Point Fire. That’s why crews from the Collins Lakeview Sawmill continue efforts to cut and truck trees to Lakeview while they still have commercial value. Because lands...