Wisconsin Loggers Holding Off On Timber Harvests

Some northern Wisconsin loggers are putting off timber harvests. The prices for timber products they deliver have fallen over the past eight months. Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association Executive Director Henry Schienebeck said some loggers are holding off on...

Federal Judge Lifts National Forest Logging Bans

A federal judge Thursday allowed loggers to go back to work on national forests without waiting for federal agencies to send out paperwork lifting logging bans prompted by the government shutdown. Following a hearing in Medford, U.S. District Judge Owen Panner signed...

Struggling West’s Timber Contracts Voided By USFS

The U.S. Forest Service is offering to renegotiate timber sale contracts in an effort to save sawmills in the Rocky Mountain region that have been hit hard by bark beetle infestations, the recession and financially unviable agreements. The agency announced on August 4...