by Web Editor | Nov 18, 2016 | News, News/PR
They’re cutting down trees to save this forest. This 548-acre logging project on the Naches Ranger District is removing trees that are unnaturally dense and at risk of catastrophic fire. By doing so, it’s employing people and providing valuable timber. It’s not a...
by Web Editor | May 29, 2015 | News, News/PR
Vaagen Brothers Lumber is a fourth-generation business based in Colville, Washington, east of the Cascades. Today, we specialize in processing small logs, and in so doing we produce a good quantity of chips and bioenergy feedstocks, but the company has undergone many...
by Web Editor | Apr 24, 2015 | News, News/PR
Six years ago, Congress selected Central Washington as one of 10 places nationwide to test a three-pronged program to restore ecological balance to forests, protect rural economies and reduce wildfires. Now a newly released federal report praises the national...
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 | Jun 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
Trudging through a densely planted patch of hardwoods in spitting rain, Ronald Mahoney spotted one more. He yanked the chain saw into action, sawed a V-shaped wedge into the trunk and finished it off with a clean cut from the opposite side. The birch, particularly...