PORT ANGELES — Dozens of protesters and counter-protesters lined U.S. Highway 101 to rally for or against the sale and logging of Aldwell timber, roughly 90 acres of what conservancy groups determined ...
Never in the history of this planet has a forest been logged back to health,” said the founder of a preservation group.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March aimed at revitalizing America’s timber industry by increasing logging on federal lands, streamlining permitting, and reducing regulatory ...
A recent federal court ruling tossing out a streamlined environmental review for three Oregon timber projects will point the ...
Timber helped build Oregon, but, since the 1990s, the state’s western counties have lost thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in annual revenue. For decades, much of the blame for the downturn ...
The state tax commission is considering chopping one of two logging exemptions for the state, potentially impacting ...
For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that. OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a ...
The timber industry for decades drove the economy in Oregon, a state where nearly half of the land is forest. Today, the industry has changed. Logging in federal forests, once a major source of lumber ...
Indonesia’s trade ministry has scrapped a requirement for wood exporters to obtain licenses verifying their wood comes from legal and sustainably managed sources. The SVLK verification system took a ...