by Web Editor | Jan 6, 2014 | News, News/PR
In 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sold the rights to log a small grove of Douglas firs to a private company called Roseburg Forest Products. Roseburg bid more than $1 million for the trees, and planned to start logging this fall. Then the tree sitters showed...
by Web Editor | Dec 20, 2013 | News, News/PR
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden is introducing his long-awaited timber bill to promote logging on national forests in Eastern Oregon. The Oregon Democrat’s Senate Natural Resources Committee is to take up the bill today. Timber industry and conservation groups that had...
by Web Editor | Dec 18, 2013 | News, News/PR
A federal judge has refused to stop timber harvest and fuel reduction treatments on 2,600 acres of an Idaho national forest. Last year, the U.S. Forest Service approved the Little Slate Project in the Nez Perce National Forest to improve aquatic habitats and other...
by Web Editor | Dec 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
At the Governor’s Forestry Economic Summit Thursday, Gov. Scott Walker announced a new timber harvesting initiative in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest – an effort he said that would help revitalize the state’s timber industry and help maintain/create hundreds...
by Web Editor | Dec 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
Close to 300,000 trees, mostly junipers and oaks, would likely be cleared on public land in the Santa Rita Mountains if the proposed Rosemont Mine is built. Clearing those trees will be controversial, but at this moment, it’s not known what will happen to them...
by Web Editor | Dec 9, 2013 | News, News/PR
Deep in the woods, the whine of chain saws pierced the fall air, and Steve Garcia shouted a warning to fellow loggers as a 40-foot pitch pine crashed to the ground. He was chopping down trees to save the forest as part of New Jersey’s effort to beat back an invasion...
