by Web Editor | Oct 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Rough and Ready Sawmill was an institution in southern Oregon for 91 years. Its lumber helped fuel the post-World War II building boom and settle the rural West. Now, it sits empty, the last of 22 mills in Josephine County to shut down for good, signaling the end...
by Web Editor | Jul 26, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has postponed three Oregon timber sales, saying that it needs time to consider a federal court decision that ordered it to sell more timber in Southern Oregon. However, a timber industry group has filed an emergency motion asking the...
by Web Editor | Feb 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
Gov. John Kitzhaber on Thursday gave members of Congress a menu of options for increasing logging on the so-called O&C timberlands in western Oregon to help rural counties shore up cash-strapped budgets and produce logs for local mills. The governor said he hopes...