by Web Editor | Oct 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
Can the Alaska logging industry survive while only logging second-growth forests? An Oregon research group says it can. And it could happen sooner than many expect. An organization called the Geos Institute just released a study based on new Forest Service data. It...
by Web Editor | Oct 28, 2013 | News, News/PR
A recently published study by U.S. Forest Service researchers evaluates potential revenues from harvesting standing timber killed by mountain pine beetle in the western United States. The study shows that while positive net revenues could be produced in West Coast and...
by Web Editor | Oct 21, 2013 | News, News/PR
A federal judge Thursday allowed loggers to go back to work on national forests without waiting for federal agencies to send out paperwork lifting logging bans prompted by the government shutdown. Following a hearing in Medford, U.S. District Judge Owen Panner signed...
by Web Editor | Oct 18, 2013 | News, News/PR
If you burn it, they will come. That movie-based logic is how federal dollars get allocated for forests, say foresters, scientists, environmentalists and others familiar with how fire risk gets handled in the Sierra Nevada range. The Rim Fire that started Aug. 17 and...
by Web Editor | Oct 16, 2013 | News, News/PR
Three timber companies filed a lawsuit Monday in Oregon’s Federal District Court to lift a logging ban in national forests caused by the federal government’s shutdown. “It makes zero sense for the cash-strapped government to shut down operations that pay millions into...
by Web Editor | Oct 14, 2013 | News, News/PR
A new gold rush may be on in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, but this time the treasure is burned trees to salvage for lumber. The Rim Fire that charred a quarter-million acres of the Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park over the summer...
