by Web Editor | Jan 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
Environmentalists want to stop an Oregon logging project they claim is a “test case” for clear-cutting trees on the verge of becoming “old growth” stands. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved logging on 187 acres near Myrtle Creek, Ore., as part of the “White...
by Web Editor | Jan 28, 2015 | News, News/PR
America is a nation of laws, but that does not mean the courtroom is necessarily the best place to resolve problems. Sometimes, the best place to settle differences is out in the fresh air, in the scent of pines and the sound of the breeze overhead. The people of...
by Web Editor | Jan 21, 2015 | News, News/PR
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced January 14th that the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment) has been selected to receive funding through the inaugural USDA Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). The $12 million award will...
by Web Editor | Dec 22, 2014 | News
By Wendy Farrand T’was the DAY before Christmas, when all through the woods, Not a creature was stirring, all asleep like they should. The skidders were parked on the landing with care, In hopes that their operators soon would be there. The cutters were nestled all...
by Web Editor | Dec 19, 2014 | News, News/PR
The government’s findings that a timber thinning and fuel reduction project in Northern California would not likely harm the threatened Northern spotted owl were adequate, the 9th Circuit ruled. The group Conservation Congress sued the U.S. Forest Service and...
by Web Editor | Dec 15, 2014 | News, News/PR
One word sums up the reaction across Oregon to the news that funding for the timber counties was dropped from a federal spending bill: frustration. “I’m very disappointed,” House Republican Leader Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte, said. “It seems...
