Oregon Town Gets Biomass Project Grant

Oregon Town Gets Biomass Project Grant

Oregon Town Gets Biomass Project Grant City officials in Prineville and Crook County, Oregon are one step closer to building a biomass power plant in their central Oregon town after the U.S. Forest Service (FS) recently awarded a $1 million grant to the city and its...
Idaho Loggers Take Issues To The Capitol

Idaho Loggers Take Issues To The Capitol

Idaho Loggers Take Issues To The Capitol The annual “Loggers and Haulers Day at the Legislature” was a success as 20 Idaho loggers made the trip to Boise for the March event sponsored by Associated Logging Contractors-Idaho. According to a report from ALC-Idaho...
Trucking Tax Credit Bill Reintroduced

Trucking Tax Credit Bill Reintroduced

Trucking Tax Credit Bill Reintroduced Bipartisan legislation to address truck driver shortages that includes a two-year refundable tax credit of up to $7,500 has been re-introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Mike Gallagher...
New Safe Routes Act Reintroduced For Session

New Safe Routes Act Reintroduced For Session

New Safe Routes Act Reintroduced For Session U.S. congressional representatives from Wisconsin and Maine have reintroduced a version of the Safe Routes Act that would allow logging trucks that meet state weight limits to drive on interstate highways. U.S. Reps. Mike...
New Safe Routes Act Reintroduced For Session

Purdue Grant Focuses On Forest Development

Purdue Grant Focuses On Forest Development U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has awarded a $10 million grant to Purdue University to help landowners and stakeholders better adapt their forests to increasingly complicated economic and climate conditions in the Eastern U.S....