by Web Editor | Oct 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
It’s a battle against time for Oregon wildfire damaged trees burned by last summer’s Barry Point Fire. That’s why crews from the Collins Lakeview Sawmill continue efforts to cut and truck trees to Lakeview while they still have commercial value. Because lands...
by Web Editor | Oct 9, 2013 | News, News/PR
A team of expert firefighters were overrun by a massive wildfire near Yarnell, Ariz., while trying to make it to a safe zone after an unpredictable desert thunderstorm turned the Yarnell Hill Fire into their path earlier this year, while confusing radio communications...
by Web Editor | Oct 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Rough and Ready Sawmill was an institution in southern Oregon for 91 years. Its lumber helped fuel the post-World War II building boom and settle the rural West. Now, it sits empty, the last of 22 mills in Josephine County to shut down for good, signaling the end...
by Web Editor | Oct 2, 2013 | News, News/PR
Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay, this week introduced a bill to speed salvage logging within the 400-square-mile burned area of the Rim Fire. McClintock says the bill is needed because lawsuits by environmentalists or regulatory hurdles could otherwise delay such...
by Web Editor | Sep 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
Politics aside, a logging bill now halfway through Congress would transform the Montana logging industry from a trickle to a torrent. The Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act envisions a six-fold increase in timber harvest from Montana’s nine national...
by Web Editor | Sep 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has determined that some 27 million board feet of timber will be logged in the controversial Bybee project in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. A record of decision for the project in the High Cascades Ranger District a dozen miles...
