by Web Editor | Jan 20, 2014 | News, News/PR
Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced the Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the O&C Lands Act of 2013 on February 6. The bill will double the timber harvest on O&C Lands in 18 Oregon counties, giving mills and rural communities a...
by Web Editor | Jan 17, 2014 | News, News/PR
If you’re looking for something positive about the deep freeze that gripped New Jersey last week, it could be a slowing of the southern pine beetle infestation. But foresters caution that cold weather is only part of the equation. “If you have sustained cold, it will...
by Web Editor | Jan 13, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Molpus Woodlands Group, LLC, a timberland investment management organization (TIMO) headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, has announced today, on behalf of a client, the successful purchase of approximately 130,659 acres in New York for approximately $57,500,000....
by Web Editor | Jan 10, 2014 | News, News/PR
A federal judge Wednesday upheld the U.S. Forest Service’s decision for an Oregon timber harvest project in the Umatilla National Forest. “The Forest Service properly analyzed the environmental impacts of the proposed project and ensured compliance with the numerous...
by Web Editor | Jan 8, 2014 | News, News/PR
In an “unprecedented” step for this early in the year, firefighters are heading to battle Northern California wildfires – and team leaders are afraid more such fires could be on the way. The Marin County Fire Department rolled its resources north...
by Web Editor | Jan 6, 2014 | News, News/PR
In 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sold the rights to log a small grove of Douglas firs to a private company called Roseburg Forest Products. Roseburg bid more than $1 million for the trees, and planned to start logging this fall. Then the tree sitters showed...
