by Web Editor | May 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden recently submitted a bipartisan letter urging the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry to include the Timber Innovation Act, which supports the development of mass timber products for building construction,...
by Web Editor | Aug 2, 2017 | News, News/PR
Oregon and Washington’s timber counties are facing serious financial troubles including cuts to education, public roads and law enforcement since they stopped receiving vital payments from the federal government. For many years, timber fueled the economy in these...
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 | Feb 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
Montana timber counties recently lost lots of federal revenue. Local officials say public services are going to suffer as a result. “It’s very scary. We’re pretty bare bones out here the way it is,” said Mineral County Commissioner Duane...