by Web Editor | Dec 5, 2018 | News, News/PR
The nonprofit Wood Supply Research Institute (WSRI) has completed a six-month national study on the value of Certified Master Logger Programs, finding they have real worth to loggers and forest industry stakeholders, but face challenges achieving the recognition with...
by Web Editor | May 10, 2018 | News, News/PR
Fourth-generation logger Loren German knew since he was a young boy that he wanted to work in the woods. But he had one piece of advice for a gaggle of third-graders who had gathered around his feller-buncher to learn how it works. “Learn computers,” he told the class...
by Web Editor | Mar 28, 2018 | News, News/PR
“Do you want to see video of my first drone crash?” I was asked as loggers and foresters filed out of the room, headed home. Last week’s FRA Forest Forum, a monthly dinner held near Bangor, Maine, brought speakers on mapping and drones, and we learned how these...
by Web Editor | Feb 27, 2017 | News, News/PR
Environmental groups are pressuring Governor Kate Brown and the Oregon Board of Forestry to find new leadership on forestry issues and increase protections for coastal drinking water flowing through private forestland. That push accompanies legislative efforts to...
by Web Editor | Jan 9, 2017 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality drafted a report that identified logging as a contributor to known risks for drinking water quality in communities up and down the Oregon coast. But the report has never been published. It was scrapped by the agency after...