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 | Jan 30, 2017 | News, News/PR
A Forest Service program that pumped millions of dollars into rural communities has expired leaving more than 700 counties and 4,000 school districts facing sharply reduced revenue-sharing timber harvest payments. The Secure Rural Schools program, enacted in 2000, was...
by Web Editor | Jan 15, 2016 | News, News/PR
An Oregon county that claims the state mismanaged Oregon Forest Trust Lands and cost it and others millions of dollars in lost revenue for schools and public safety is threatening to file a class-action lawsuit seeking $1.4 billion. Linn County notified the governor...
by Web Editor | Apr 17, 2015 | News, News/PR
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised the Senate’s move Tuesday night to extend a lifeline to rural Oregon communities with final passage of a two-year renewal of the Secure Rural Schools program. “This extension ends months of uncertainty for Oregon’s rural communities,...
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...