by Web Editor | Jul 2, 2018 | News, News/PR
Sales of timber in stands charred in last summer’s Chetco Bar Fire could be sold as early as next month as the Forest Service this week formalized its salvage plans for the 191,197-acre fire area in southwest Oregon. The forest’s final Chetco Bar Salvage Project...
by Web Editor | Jun 20, 2016 | News, News/PR
Massive fires that rage through the ponderosa pine forest leave a haunted wasteland in their wake. To find a stunning example, just drive on Forest Road 300 through the blackened scar of the Dude Fire, which charred 30,000 acres and killed six firefighters more than...
by Web Editor | Sep 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
Baker County Commissioner Bill Harvey says that the federal government needs to get to work on a plan for salvage logging to quickly cut the timber left standing by area wildfires. “What they’ve done in the past is they’ve not logged them and they are allowed to fall...
by Web Editor | Nov 7, 2014 | News, News/PR
When a tornado ripped through some areas of Westmoreland County in June 2012, John Wenzel, executive director at the Powdermill Nature Reserve, saw opportunity within destruction. When it comes to salvage logging after windstorms, ecologists debate whether it is...
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...