by Web Editor | Oct 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Idaho logging and wood products industries struggle with volatile prices and a sharply reduced amount of timber available for harvest on federal lands compared with a generation ago. But Idaho wood is still a moneymaker, and recent trend lines are mostly positive,...
by Web Editor | Oct 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
New management for 400,000 acres of timberland in Klamath County means the region can expect to experience new growth in the timber industry. Green Diamond Resource Co., the timber company that purchased several thousand acres of land last year from the Klamath Falls...
by Web Editor | Oct 7, 2015 | News, News/PR
Massive wildfires raged across the western United States this summer, killing people and devastating entire towns. Six new projects announced recently are designed to help Arizona avoid that same fate. It’s part of the two-day Healthy Forests, Vibrant Economy...
by Web Editor | Oct 5, 2015 | News, News/PR
A timber company that over the years clear-cut and thinned trees above the hill that unleashed the Oso mudslide has asked a King County judge to spare it from being forced into court next year to fight claims that it is partially responsible for the tragedy. Grandy...
by Web Editor | Sep 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
This year’s horrific wildfire season in the West is spurring Congress to move toward providing $700 million in emergency disaster aid to the U.S. Forest Service and other federal agencies facing rapidly rising firefighting costs. The emergency aid – contained in...
by Web Editor | Sep 28, 2015 | News, News/PR
The amount of land burned by wildfires in the U.S. this year has surpassed 9 million acres, according to data released Thursday by the National Interagency Fire Center. This is only the fourth time on record the country has reached the 9 million-acre mark, center...
