by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Jan 10, 2023 | News
Oregon Creates Research Forest After seeking to sell the Elliott State Forest previously, Oregon’s State Land Board recently voted to convert the 80,000 acre tract into a research forest, de-coupling it from the state’s school funding system. The coast forest isn’t a...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Jan 10, 2023 | News
Biofuels Project Sinks The Red Rock Biofuels project in southern Oregon appears headed for foreclosure according to notices published in the Lake County Examiner newspaper in late December after the company failed to make principal and interest payments on some $300...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Jan 5, 2023 | News
Industry Wins Black Hills Appeal of Reduced Harvest Officials with the Black Hills Forest Resources Assn. (BHFRA) have prevailed in an appeal of a 2021 decision to drastically reduce future timber harvests on the Black Hills National Forest. In February 2021, the...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Jan 5, 2023 | News
American Truckers Cite Fuel Prices, Drivers American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), recently released its 18th annual top industry issues report, identifying the leading industry concerns including fuel prices, driver shortage, truck parking, driver...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Dec 15, 2022 | News
Oregon Returns $61 Million In Timber Revenues Out of almost $100 million in overall timber sale revenues in 2022, the state of Oregon has returned $61 million to the counties that have state forest acreage. State law requires two-thirds of forest revenues be...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Dec 14, 2022 | News
FS Prevails In Forest Thinning Lawsuit The U.S. Forest Service recently prevailed in a three-year-old lawsuit seeking to halt a forest health project in coastal California’s Los Padres National Forest that sought to thin timber stands to reduce the threat of...
