by Web Editor | Dec 7, 2012 | News, News/PR
Forest industry leaders told Oregon Leadership Summit attendees during a morning panel that they want to find ways to salvage wood from areas hit by forest fires. Doing so could help make economies in smaller cities like John Day, which was hit by the Parish Cabin...
by Web Editor | Dec 3, 2012 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to switch gears on more than 30 years of regulating the muddy water running off logging roads into rivers. At issue: Should the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency keep considering it the same as water running off a farm...
by Web Editor | Nov 30, 2012 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service will spend millions to prop up the wood product industry in Colorado and to subsidize more widespread logging projects in the name of forest health, restoration and renewable energy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week announced two...
by Web Editor | Nov 28, 2012 | News, News/PR
Officials with the Bureau of Land Management are preparing an environmental assessment as part of a plan to salvage timber burned last summer in a wildfire in west-central Idaho. BLM officials want to log about 10 million board feet on 940 acres in the John Day...
by Web Editor | Nov 21, 2012 | News, News/PR
The state of Oregon has withdrawn more than 900 acres of planned timber sales in Elliott State Forest, pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed by environmentalists. The Oregon Department of Forestry plans instead to open 465 acres of alternative logging sites that were...
by Web Editor | Nov 19, 2012 | News, News/PR
Crews are battling a major forest fire that’s nearly 1,000 acres. The fire was reported about 2 p.m. Saturday in the Twilight area of Boone County. Charlie Spencer with the West Virginia Division of Forestry tells WSAZ.com a burning coal seam caught leaves on...
