Fire Leaders Say Oregon Wildfire Will Grow Fivefold

The terrain at one Oregon wildfire is so forbidding and the vegetation so dry that veteran firefighters expect it to grow more than fivefold and burn until autumn — unless there’s rain in the meantime. The area of the Big Windy fire centered 25 miles northwest...

Oregon Timber Harvest Up For Third Year In A Row

Oregon’s timber harvest reached 3.75 billion board feet in 2012, continuing a recovery from the crash of the housing market and the depths of the recession. In 2009, loggers cut 2.75 billion board feet, but the harvest has increased each year since. The...