by Web Editor | Mar 4, 2015 | News, News/PR
Wrapped in layers of warm clothing, Four Corners Elementary School students made the trek along the school’s Burstrom Trail on Tuesday to see a landscape changed by logging. About 19 acres of forestland around the school is being logged for aspen, also known as poplar...
by Web Editor | Mar 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving $37 million dollars to South Dakota so a number of forest districts in the country can be thinned, including one district in the Black Hills. Sixty-five hundred acres in the Hell Canyon Ranger District of the Black Hills...
by Web Editor | Feb 27, 2015 | News, News/PR
Conservationists are skeptical about Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s budget for the natural resource departments, fearful that it would open the gates for expanded commercial harvesting of state-owned property. LePage wants to do away with the state’s Bureau of Parks and...
by Web Editor | Feb 25, 2015 | News, News/PR
Competitions, industry accreditation seminars and displays of the latest in timber management equipment were the most obvious components of the 77th Annual Oregon Logging Conference held Feb. 19-21, at the Lane County Fairgrounds in Eugene. Less visible were the more...
by Web Editor | Feb 24, 2015 | News, News/PR
From: Timber Harvesting Staff Martco L.L.C. announced the selection of Corrigan, Texas as the location for a new, state-of-the-art oriented strandboard (OSB) facility. The facility is expected to employ 165. Construction is scheduled to begin this summer, with startup...
by Web Editor | Feb 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
Montana’s U.S. senators are getting behind a new bill they say will help Montana’s most rural timber counties round-out their budgets. Mineral County Commissioner Duane Simons says communities like his are reeling after Congress failed to renew the Secure...
