Tuesday, February 09, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A Hong Kong-based company has purchased a pulp mill in the lower Willamette Valley. The Cascade Pacific Pulp mill near Halsey had been owned by Pope & Talbot, which went bankrupt in 2008 after 160 years in business. A Minnesota private equity firm won the m ...
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The Department of Lands aims to increase timber harvests from state land by 16.5 percent annually, in hopes it will increase jobs and revenue to schools. George Bacon, the agency director, told Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee members Monday he recommends ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:08 AM
OLYMPIA -- Washington state Rep. Dean Takko said he has been alarmed by the loss of the timber land base and is proposing incentives to encourage commercial forestry. "We'd like to see the industry survive," the Longview Democrat said. "This would be another tool in the tool box." U ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:08 AM
COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) -- In Bob Laport's 31 years as county forester, he's never seen Coos County go without a timber sale until last year, much less two years in a row. But it looks like it could be another profitless year. Over the past few weeks, Laport has been assessing tim ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:49 AM
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) -- Utter one fowl name and it can draw long sighs from many in Douglas County and around the state. The northern spotted owl has deeply affected the economic, environment and community landscape in the 20 years since the bird was first listed as a threatened species un ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:29 PM
CARNATION, Wash. -- Preston Drew figures logging is too real to make a reality show out of it. He has had six friends die and about that many seriously injured on the job. "You've seen 'Ax Men'? Well, there are no wild men running around the place here," he said. "There's just too much li ...
Saturday, January 23, 2010 11:08 AM
The USDA will spend an additional $14 million to control bark beetle damage in Idaho forests, officials have announced. Rep. Walt Minnick, D-Idaho, said the funds would help restore forest health and at the same time provide jobs in the timber industry by removing dead and dying trees and ...
Saturday, January 23, 2010 12:08 PM
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) -- Officials with the Oregon Department of Transportation were so angry with Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad for shutting down its Coos Bay rail line in September 2007 that they punished the Roseburg rail carrier by taking away funding for a new Winchester switchin ...
Saturday, January 23, 2010 4:49 PM
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- The number of acres of pine forest in Montana infested with the mountain pine beetle nearly doubled in 2009, but a forester says the epidemic is losing steam in some areas. Pine beetles had infested 1.2 million acres of forest in 2008 and 2.7 million acres ...
Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:08 AM
A sawmill in California has lost a legal challenge to the Pacific fisher's candidacy for federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. A federal appellate court has rejected the argument that the candidacy was based on an "arbitrary and capricious" finding by the U.S. Fish and Wild ...
Saturday, January 16, 2010 10:09 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- An Idaho congressman says the U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend an additional $14 million on damaged Idaho forests where bark beetles have long pestered trees. Rep. Walt Minnick, D-Idaho, announced the funding Thursday. Minnick, a former wood-product ...
Saturday, January 16, 2010 1:28 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- In another reversal of Bush administration Endangered Species Act policy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to more than quadruple habitat protections for the bull trout, a fish that has been harmed by logging, mining and grazing on federal lands. The a ...
Friday, January 15, 2010 12:08 PM
CASSANDRA PROFITAThe Daily Astorian ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) -- In Rock Creek, a tributary of the Nehalem River in Clatsop County, water is meandering around 40-foot logs under wispy white alder branches. There's no sign that Mark Gustafson and his logging cre ...
Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:14 AM
Bank of America says Oregon sawmill, guarantor defaulted A national bank has filed suit against two Oregon lumber companies, demanding the repayment of an alleged debt of nearly $5 million. Bank of America claims the Diamond West Lumber sawmill in Philomath, Ore., defaulted on a $5 millio ...
Saturday, January 09, 2010 10:08 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Records reveal scant communication between an inmate firefighting crew whose camp was overrun by the massive Station Fire near Los Angeles and the commanders who were directing the firefighting operation, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Dispatch logs obtained by t ...
Saturday, January 02, 2010 9:29 AM
MONTE RIO, Calif. (AP) -- A secretive society that counts politicians and celebrities among its members has received state approval to log on more than 2,000 acres of land it owns in Sonoma County. The state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Tuesday granted the Bohemian Club ...
Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:14 AM
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) -- The Douglas County Sheriff's Office says a worker died in an accident at a Roseburg lumber mill. According to spokesman Dwes Hutson, 39-year-old Holger Fussell of Winston was found severely injured beneath a lumber stacker at Douglas County Forest Products. Co-worker ...
Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:08 PM
SISTERS, Ore. (AP) -- Brad Chalfant eases a 12-passenger van over a jagged logging road just miles from the Three Sisters. Once owned by a timber company, the 50-square-mile forest that Chalfant, executive director of the Deschutes Land Trust, hopes to buy isn't the kind of place tha ...
Thursday, December 31, 2009 8:29 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg said Monday he plans a series of public meetings to solicit ideas for "fixing" legislation from U.S. Sen. Jon Tester that seeks to both expand wilderness and increase logging in Montana. Tester, a Democrat, introduced ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 2:48 PM
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) -- After surviving the worst homebuilding year since the end of World War II, lumber producers in Longview say they're seeing the first signs of a slow recovery. Anthony Chavez of Weyerhaeuser says that if the $8,000 federal tax credit for first-time homebuyers successfully ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 2:48 PM
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has said predictions of wide-scale loss of farmland resulting from a proposed carbon-offsets program are inaccurate. A model commissioned by USDA and produced by researchers at Texas A&M University had predicted the loss of million of acres of fa ...
Saturday, December 26, 2009 10:04 AM
The Weyerhaeuser timber company plans to transform its organizational structure, but that's not expected to affect milling infrastructure in the West. "There's nothing in this conversion that would cause us to make a change in our operations," said Bruce Amundson, financial spokesman for ...
Saturday, December 26, 2009 10:04 AM
Slash piles left over from logging operations may turn into new sources of revenue for the timber industry. With the demand for renewable energy expected to rise, some timber companies are studying how to profitably turn woody logging waste into a feedstock for fuel or electricity product ...
Saturday, December 26, 2009 10:04 AM
Hauling chipped forest slash to electricity-producing facilities isn't cheap. In fact, transportation is one of the main impediments to the material's use as a renewable energy feedstock. But removing the "fluff" from hog fuel could make it more efficient to move and improve profit margin ...
Saturday, December 26, 2009 11:04 AM
The Washington Legislature will face a $2.6 billion budget deficit in its 2010 session, but state Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark says he will try to get the state to honor its commitment to small timberland owners. Under the Forests and Fish law approved by the Legislature in 1999, the ...
Saturday, December 26, 2009 9:04 AM
SUPERIOR, Mont. (AP) -- A big land deal south of Alberton could produce Montana's second-largest state park. State officials say a $14 million transaction between Montana's Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the Nature Conservancy for most of the Fish Creek drainage could be ...
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