by Web Editor | Feb 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
Montana’s U.S. senators are getting behind a new bill they say will help Montana’s most rural timber counties round-out their budgets. Mineral County Commissioner Duane Simons says communities like his are reeling after Congress failed to renew the Secure...
by Web Editor | Feb 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, introduced legislation Thursday that would reinstate timber payments for rural counties for three years. The bill, called the Secure Rural Schools and Payment in Lieu of Taxes Repair Act, would provide funding at 2011...
by Web Editor | Apr 5, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service’s demands that rural timber counties pay back millions of dollars in federal subsidies under automatic budget cuts have outraged members of Congress from both parties and caused concern in those counties with struggling economies....