by Web Editor | Oct 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Idaho logging and wood products industries struggle with volatile prices and a sharply reduced amount of timber available for harvest on federal lands compared with a generation ago. But Idaho wood is still a moneymaker, and recent trend lines are mostly positive,...
by Web Editor | Oct 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
New management for 400,000 acres of timberland in Klamath County means the region can expect to experience new growth in the timber industry. Green Diamond Resource Co., the timber company that purchased several thousand acres of land last year from the Klamath Falls...
by Web Editor | Feb 18, 2015 | News, News/PR
While proponents of federal-land transfer often claim state management would increase resource extraction and jobs, the Montana timber industry doesn’t agree. On Friday, the Montana Wood Products Association board of directors issued a policy statement opposing...
by Web Editor | Dec 3, 2014 | News, News/PR
Lincoln County officials and representatives of the timber industry are cautiously optimistic about the prospect of additional logging activity after the Kootenai National Forest approved the sale of roughly 39 million board-feet of timber northeast of Libby. Kootenai...
by Web Editor | Nov 14, 2014 | News, News/PR
Washington timber companies have to meet new, stricter guidelines if they want to log on potentially unstable slopes. Representatives of some of those companies testified to the state’s Forest Practices Board Wednesday saying the new regulations go too far and...
