by Jacqlyn Kirkland | May 11, 2021 | News
Officials with the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. (SFI) recently announced the launch of a partnership to develop a new SFI Urban and Community Forest Sustainability Standard for application in North America and potentially globally. SFI will collaborate with...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Apr 15, 2021 | News
Earlier this year, Minnesota loggers and others worked a timber sale north of Duluth that’s expected to net roughly $25,000 for the Log A Load for Kids program and Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare through the Children’s Miracle Network. The harvest was...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Apr 15, 2021 | News
Spotted Owl Back In Court Preservationist groups and timber industry interests have filed lawsuits against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over developments concerning critical habitat acreage designation for the Northern Spotted Owl, which has been listed as a...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Apr 15, 2021 | News
OSU Predicts Log Prices Researchers at Oregon State University have found a new way to predict the future price of logs that uses readily accessible economic information. “Log prices are really variable,” said Jeff Reimer, a professor of applied economics...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Mar 9, 2021 | News
In a letter to its members, Associated Oregon Loggers has sounded the alarm over a number of bills in the state’s House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee that AOL says will increase or change harvest taxation, implement a new timber severance tax, and...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Mar 9, 2021 | News
Recently announced by the Future Forest Economy Initiative (FFEI), the organization is investing $250,000 to enhance markets for certified wood and strengthen the supply chain in the Northern Forest region through a grant to the Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands...
