by Web Editor | Sep 7, 2018 | News, News/PR
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has awarded its first Good Neighbor Authority restoration timber harvest sale. Colville-based Vaagen Brothers Timber Company was the successful bidder Tuesday for a project that will reduce hazardous timber...
by Web Editor | Aug 13, 2018 | News, News/PR
Washington residents have reported uncharacteristically high numbers of dead and dying Douglas Fir trees to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) this spring and summer. The culprits: drought and bark beetles. The native bark beetle species do not...
by Web Editor | Mar 21, 2018 | News, News/PR
An abandoned hardwood lumber mill in Washington will reopen after receiving a large investment. Washington’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and state legislature will invest $1.5 million to get the Raymond, Wash. mill, owned by the Port of Willapa Harbor,...
by Web Editor | Mar 23, 2015 | News, News/PR
Mike Janicki has spent 40 years as a logger, and his work brings him to the unstable hillsides around this upper Skagit Valley town. During past decades, there have been large and small slides here, some on cut land and some on forested land. Those slides have damaged...
by Web Editor | May 12, 2014 | News, News/PR
Timber companies that want to harvest near potentially dangerous landslide areas will now have to conduct geologic reviews before getting a Washington logging permit from the state, officials said Friday. Under the new standards announced by Commissioner of Public...