by Web Editor | Jun 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
Trudging through a densely planted patch of hardwoods in spitting rain, Ronald Mahoney spotted one more. He yanked the chain saw into action, sawed a V-shaped wedge into the trunk and finished it off with a clean cut from the opposite side. The birch, particularly...
by Web Editor | Jun 9, 2014 | News, News/PR
Three Oregon environmental groups filed a notice of intent to sue timber companies and stop them from logging on three parcels of the Elliott State Forest. Seneca Jones and Scott Timber bought the parcels from the Department of State Lands for a combined $4.2 million...
by Web Editor | Jan 6, 2014 | News, News/PR
In 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sold the rights to log a small grove of Douglas firs to a private company called Roseburg Forest Products. Roseburg bid more than $1 million for the trees, and planned to start logging this fall. Then the tree sitters showed...
by Web Editor | Mar 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
The downed limbs and other woody debris that are inevitable byproducts of timber harvest could be among the most important components of post-harvest landscapes, according to a new study led by the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station. Researchers...
by Web Editor | Jan 21, 2013 | News, News/PR
A 330-year-old Douglas fir was among 102 trees that a Brinnon, WA, man pleaded guilty to stealing or damaging from the Olympic National Forest and was sentenced to one year in jail. According to the U.S. Department of Forestry, Reid Johnston, 41, has been convicted of...