by Web Editor | Mar 23, 2015 | News, News/PR
Mike Janicki has spent 40 years as a logger, and his work brings him to the unstable hillsides around this upper Skagit Valley town. During past decades, there have been large and small slides here, some on cut land and some on forested land. Those slides have damaged...
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...
by Web Editor | Sep 5, 2014 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s state Board of Forestry is working on balancing a healthy timber industry with healthy salmon runs. It would be the first change to the riparian protections of the Oregon Forest Practices Act since 1994. The question was raised by a 2011 study that...
by Web Editor | May 12, 2014 | News, News/PR
Timber companies that want to harvest near potentially dangerous landslide areas will now have to conduct geologic reviews before getting a Washington logging permit from the state, officials said Friday. Under the new standards announced by Commissioner of Public...
by Web Editor | Dec 6, 2013 | News, News/PR
Washington timber industry and environmental groups will make a stab at collaboration to boost both logging and habitat restoration in the Olympic National Forest. Olympic National Forest was ground zero for some of the hottest conflicts of the timber wars of the...