by Web Editor | May 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden recently submitted a bipartisan letter urging the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry to include the Timber Innovation Act, which supports the development of mass timber products for building construction,...
by Web Editor | Aug 2, 2017 | News, News/PR
Oregon and Washington’s timber counties are facing serious financial troubles including cuts to education, public roads and law enforcement since they stopped receiving vital payments from the federal government. For many years, timber fueled the economy in these...
by Web Editor | Apr 17, 2015 | News, News/PR
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised the Senate’s move Tuesday night to extend a lifeline to rural Oregon communities with final passage of a two-year renewal of the Secure Rural Schools program. “This extension ends months of uncertainty for Oregon’s rural communities,...
by Web Editor | Dec 15, 2014 | News, News/PR
One word sums up the reaction across Oregon to the news that funding for the timber counties was dropped from a federal spending bill: frustration. “I’m very disappointed,” House Republican Leader Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte, said. “It seems...
by Web Editor | Nov 27, 2013 | News, News/PR
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a forest bill that sets the stage for sweeping changes in the management of 2.1 million acres of federal forest in Western Oregon. The bill attempts to resolve decades of lawsuits over the Bureau of Land Management’s so-called...