by Web Editor | Oct 16, 2013 | News, News/PR
Three timber companies filed a lawsuit Monday in Oregon’s Federal District Court to lift a logging ban in national forests caused by the federal government’s shutdown. “It makes zero sense for the cash-strapped government to shut down operations that pay millions into...
by Web Editor | Jul 26, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has postponed three Oregon timber sales, saying that it needs time to consider a federal court decision that ordered it to sell more timber in Southern Oregon. However, a timber industry group has filed an emergency motion asking the...
by Web Editor | Jul 11, 2012 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s annual timber harvest jumped 13% in 2011, reaching 3.65 billion board feet. Large private forest owners, taking advantage of a continued hot export market to China and elsewhere, accounted for two-thirds of the harvest despite having only 19% of the...