by Web Editor | Dec 21, 2012 | News, News/PR
The Black Hills National Forest plans to use extensive commercial tree thinning to battle the mountain pine beetle as part of a $70 million plan that will take five to seven years to implement. The plan developed over more than a year will target 248,000 acres of...
by Web Editor | Dec 19, 2012 | News, News/PR
The U.S. attorney’s office says a 41-year-old Brinnon man has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing more than $70,000 worth of timber from the Olympic National Forest, including one tree estimated to be more than 300 years old. Reid Johnston was...
by Web Editor | Dec 17, 2012 | News, News/PR
Environmental groups warned Thursday that proposed new logging rules for the Adirondack Park could open the door to clear-cutting forest land for timber. Last month, the Adirondack Park Agency, which controls the six million-acre park, proposed a rule that would...
by Web Editor | Dec 12, 2012 | News, News/PR
The Fremont-Winema National Forest has recently awarded seven timber sales and stewardship contracts. In all, the sales call for timber harvests of 38.9 million board feet (MMBF) on four different ranger districts, including three on the Klamath, two on the Chemult...
by Web Editor | Dec 10, 2012 | News, News/PR
Off and on for the last few weeks, the whirl of helicopter blades has been a common sound for the residents of Darby. An Idaho-based helicopter logging company has used the Logger Days grounds as its base station as it finishes hauling out the last logs from the...
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...
