Friday, November 20, 2009
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REDDING, Calif. -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be the kickoff speaker at the 61st annual Sierra Cascade Logging Conference in February. Tickets to see Palin, the 2004 GOP vice presidential candidate, went on sale this week. Conference spokeswoman Nadine Bailey said it hasn't ...
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Long-term plans based on work of ex-rocket scientist EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Imagine Oregon's Coast Range becoming the land of the giant coastal redwood -- the tallest tree on Earth, the one you can drive your car through. Some tree farmers are doing more than imagining. They're planting at l ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:59 AM
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- Earl Cooley, a pioneering smoke jumper who took the Forest Service's first leap into a flame-riddled wilderness, died Nov. 9 in Missoula. He was 98. Cooley made the jump into the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho on July 12, 1940. His chute nearly failed to open and he ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:30 AM
JOHN DAY, Ore. (AP) -- The Ochoco Lumber Co. is getting $4.9 million in federal stimulus money to build a wood pellet fuel plant. Gov. Ted Kulongoski's office said the project allows 80 full-time jobs to be retained and will create 11 new ones. The plant will produce pellets for bulk deliv ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:31 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's top Forest Service official says national forests can store more carbon to slow global warming, but he warns that such a goal must be balanced against the risk of catastrophic wildfires. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell told a Senate panel on Wednesday that ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 12:49 PM
DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado agriculture group and Chaffee County have been allowed to intervene in a lawsuit challenging livestock grazing on about a quarter-million acres on the Pike and San Isabel national forests in south-central Colorado. A federal magistrate Monday approved requests by the C ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 AM
As legislators huddle over the fine points of renewable energy, carbon credits and climate change, a Northwest energy company has moved the ball down the field a little farther. Teaming up with eight Montana sawmills, forest landowners and the Montana Community Development Corp., NorthW ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:03 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Darcy and Cory Miller have seen many market fluctuations during the nearly three decades that they have grown and sold Christmas trees at Deep Creek Tree Farms in Eagle Creek. But never one as brutal as this. "Things are bad right now," Darcy Miller said ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009 4:03 PM
WARREN, Idaho -- Biologists studying salmon in the Pacific Northwest for decades have lost track of the fish just as they set out on life's last leg, that final upstream lunge to spawn and die in the remote, backcountry streams and creeks in Oregon, Washington and Central Idaho. In many w ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM
The American Forest Foundation on Monday, Nov. 9, announced that Clint Bentz, a family forest owner and certified public accountant from Scio, Ore., has been elected chairman of its board of trustees. Bentz said in a prepared statement he was honored to lead the group "at a time of tremen ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM
Major real estate investment trusts that control large swaths of U.S. forest land are reporting signs of economic improvement, but the road for the timber market remains bumpy. "Business conditions appear to have stabilized in many of our markets," Rick Holley, president and CEO of Plum C ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
The Weyerhaeuser Co. appears to be digging out of its financial hole as its quarterly losses drop substantially. The firm reported losses of about $5 million in the third quarter of 2009, down from $116 million last quarter, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commi ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
The economic performance of real estate investment trusts, or REITS, has a growing influence on millions of acres of U.S. forestland. REITs gained control of about 15 million acres of timber in the U.S. after expanding by more than 20 percent annually between the mid-1980s and the mid-2000s, ac ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth in Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of the timber is and temperatures are already warm. Researchers from Oregon State University and the U.S. ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:59 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Protesters against logging old growth forests have won an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling that struck down a state law against interfering with agricultural operations. The case grew out of arrests in March 2005 in the Siskiyou National Forest when protesters clai ...
Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:10 AM
Figures released last week from the Oregon Department of Forestry show the 2009 fire season was relatively tame. On the 15.8 million acres protected by ODF, only 8,200 acres burned in 2009, well below a 10-year average of 26,082 acres. "We're pretty happy about that," said Rod Nichols, a p ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:03 AM
Thinning projects make up bulk of BLM sales in Western Ore. GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced a crop of timber sales for federal lands in Western Oregon intended to keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a new long-term forest managem ...
Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:31 AM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Nearly a dozen conservation groups are appealing to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to put a stop to two timber sales in the Tongass National Forest. The groups say both sales would cut old-growth trees in roadless areas of the Tongass -- the largest national fore ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:19 PM
ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The U.S. Forest Service has approved a project to thin 7,600 acres of forestland outside Ashland in an effort to reduce fire risk in the city's watershed and in wooded land near homes. The Ashland Daily Tidings reports that $2 million in federal stimulus money will be used ...
Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:48 AM
SALEM (AP) -- The old mill in Boise Cascade's downtown is gone but most of the building materials are being recycled. Staton Companies, a Eugene-based demolition contractor, has flattened the mill's buildings to make way for a mixed-use development. From the century-old industria ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:33 AM
NAPLES, Idaho (AP) -- Welco Lumber Co. USA is closing its Naples mill, resulting in 93 layoffs. The Shelton, Wash., based-company announced this week that it plans to "mothball" the plant by the end of the year. The company says the closure isn't meant to be permanent but ...
Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:09 AM
A landmark carbon-offset deal involving Sierra Pacific Industries signals a new potential source of income for a timber industry that's been devastated by a housing slump and environmental battles. The nation's second-largest lumber producer recently reached a deal with state air regulato ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:04 AM
California has prevailed against the federal government in a lawsuit over the management of roadless areas in several national forests in the state. A federal judge rejected several allegations made by the state of California, but ultimately agreed that the U.S. Forest Service had abused ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:04 AM
Log prices appear to have rebounded in recent months, but it's unclear whether this signals a genuine recovery or a temporary bubble. Timber and logging companies are heartened by the upswing even as they remain cautious about the long-term outlook, said Dan Corgan, contracts team leader ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:04 AM
University of Idaho Extension will conduct a series of forestry educational programs throughout Idaho to strengthen family forest owners' abilities. Information for the Strengthening Forest Stewardship Skills series is online at www.cnr.uidaho.edu. For the Idaho panhandle, call Chris Schnepf at ...
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