by Web Editor | Apr 4, 2014 | News, News/PR
A prominent Oregon timber company’s bid to purchase state forest land in Oregon is hitting a nerve with environmentalists who say it could lead to logging on the habitat of species protected by state and federal laws. The Seneca Jones Timber Co. has submitted a bid on...
by Web Editor | Jan 10, 2014 | News, News/PR
A federal judge Wednesday upheld the U.S. Forest Service’s decision for an Oregon timber harvest project in the Umatilla National Forest. “The Forest Service properly analyzed the environmental impacts of the proposed project and ensured compliance with the numerous...
by Web Editor | Oct 16, 2013 | News, News/PR
Three timber companies filed a lawsuit Monday in Oregon’s Federal District Court to lift a logging ban in national forests caused by the federal government’s shutdown. “It makes zero sense for the cash-strapped government to shut down operations that pay millions into...
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 | Sep 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has determined that some 27 million board feet of timber will be logged in the controversial Bybee project in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. A record of decision for the project in the High Cascades Ranger District a dozen miles...