by Web Editor | May 29, 2015 | News, News/PR
Vaagen Brothers Lumber is a fourth-generation business based in Colville, Washington, east of the Cascades. Today, we specialize in processing small logs, and in so doing we produce a good quantity of chips and bioenergy feedstocks, but the company has undergone many...
by Web Editor | Apr 8, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Northwest Forest Plan, the icy truce that ended the 1990s timber wars, continues to unravel as two federal agencies look for new ways to manage Northwest forests. By late April, the Bureau of Land Management says it will release a new plan to manage 2.5 million...
by Web Editor | Feb 18, 2015 | News, News/PR
While proponents of federal-land transfer often claim state management would increase resource extraction and jobs, the Montana timber industry doesn’t agree. On Friday, the Montana Wood Products Association board of directors issued a policy statement opposing...
by Web Editor | Dec 6, 2013 | News, News/PR
Washington timber industry and environmental groups will make a stab at collaboration to boost both logging and habitat restoration in the Olympic National Forest. Olympic National Forest was ground zero for some of the hottest conflicts of the timber wars of the...
by Web Editor | Feb 27, 2013 | News, News/PR
A logging proposal just outside Crater Lake National Park has reignited the Northwest’s logging wars in miniature, pitting timber groups anxious for jobs against environmentalists who have gathered 10,000 comments in opposition. The U.S. Forest Service’s...