by Web Editor | Oct 28, 2013 | News, News/PR
A recently published study by U.S. Forest Service researchers evaluates potential revenues from harvesting standing timber killed by mountain pine beetle in the western United States. The study shows that while positive net revenues could be produced in West Coast and...
by Web Editor | Oct 21, 2013 | News, News/PR
A federal judge Thursday allowed loggers to go back to work on national forests without waiting for federal agencies to send out paperwork lifting logging bans prompted by the government shutdown. Following a hearing in Medford, U.S. District Judge Owen Panner signed...
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 | Sep 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
Politics aside, a logging bill now halfway through Congress would transform the Montana logging industry from a trickle to a torrent. The Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act envisions a six-fold increase in timber harvest from Montana’s nine national...
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...