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Following a spring session when interest groups sought to change Idaho’s state endowment land management goals, Idaho Dept. of Lands Director Dustin Miller released a six-page memo detailing the importance of sustainable timber management to…

West Fraser offered a range of outlooks in its second quarter earnings report. It noted that over the medium term, improvements in housing affordability supported by U.S. government policy changes and the expected normalization of…

A new U.S. Forest Service wood innovation grant will enable Dovetail Partners, MassTimber@MSU (Michigan State University), and Team Pennsylvania to accelerate the next phase of the Great Lakes Mass Timber Collaborative (GLMTC). The multi‑state effort…

Resource Management Service (RMS) has announced that the RMS Evergreen U.S. Forestland Fund has made its first investment in the Pacific Northwest through a strategic land exchange with Rayonier Inc. Under the agreement, the Fund…

Responding to complaints from all segments of the industry, from manufacturers down to drivers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in July proposed changes and reforms to multiple heavy-duty engine regulations adopted in 2023, with…

U.S. Forest Service and the State of New Mexico have signed a next-generation agreement that expands opportunities for timber production, new wood uses, landscape restoration, and reducing wildfire risk to communities, ecosystems, and local economies…

At their April 30 meeting, the board of directors of the Finance Authority of Maine (FAME) approved state new markets tax credit financing to assist with the planned expansion of the Irving Forest Products sawmill…

A federal judge has halted logging operations across 3,000 acres of a 6,000 acre forest health project on Bureau of Land Management timberland near Camas Valley in western Oregon. The judge agreed with three preservationist…

U.S. Department of Agriculture Acting Under Secretary Todd Lindsey recently announced the agency is guaranteeing $80 million through the Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan Program (TPEP) and Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan Program to support…

In mid-June the Associated Oregon Loggers welcomed the fifth Executive Vice President in AOL’s history when Joe Justice started work for the 57-year-old loggers association. A longtime Oregonian, Justice grew up in St. Helens and…