by Web Editor | Mar 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
A federal judge this week will try to put a price tag on the trees that a Brinnon, Washington logger admitted to poaching from Olympic National Forest. Reid B. Johnston, 41, pleaded guilty to willfully injuring and committing depredation against U.S. property in...
by Web Editor | Mar 1, 2013 | News, News/PR
Long-delayed forest thinning on city-owned land in the Ashland Watershed in Ashland, Oregon is moving forward thanks to grant funding, an improved market for timber, and a neighboring thinning project on U.S. Forest Service land. Back in 2009, the Ashland City Council...
by Web Editor | Feb 27, 2013 | News, News/PR
A logging proposal just outside Crater Lake National Park has reignited the Northwest’s logging wars in miniature, pitting timber groups anxious for jobs against environmentalists who have gathered 10,000 comments in opposition. The U.S. Forest Service’s...
by Web Editor | Feb 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
As the emerald ash borer ravages North American ash trees, threatening the trees’ very survival, a team of entomologists and engineers may have found a way to prevent the spread of the pests. Emerald ash borers (EABs), a type of beetle native to Asia, first...
by Web Editor | Feb 22, 2013 | News, News/PR
The man in charge of resource management for 20 million acres of national forest land in California believes it’s time the government and timber industry start doing a better job of working together. Speaking Thursday morning at the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference,...
by Web Editor | Feb 15, 2013 | News, News/PR
In recent weeks, the Adirondack Park has become involved in a new debate over clearcut logging. But a growing coalition of environmentalists, industry leaders, government officials and academics agree on one thing. More than a million acres of the Park’s...
