by Web Editor | Nov 27, 2018 | News, News/PR
Timber sale levels on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest reached 128.7 million board feet in fiscal year 2018, a level of sales not seen since the early 1990s. The 2018 fiscal year was also the sixth year in a row timber sales have increased in the forest. In...
by Web Editor | Dec 21, 2016 | News, News/PR
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...
by Web Editor | Jul 7, 2014 | News, News/PR
More hardwood was thinned from Wisconsin’s 1.5 million acre Northwoods last year than in recent memory, but advocates say more could be done to manage the timber and help Wisconsin’s struggling northern economy. The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest had...
by Web Editor | Dec 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
At the Governor’s Forestry Economic Summit Thursday, Gov. Scott Walker announced a new timber harvesting initiative in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest – an effort he said that would help revitalize the state’s timber industry and help maintain/create hundreds...