Large trees, defined as 21 inches in diameter or bigger, make up just 3% of national forests in central and eastern Oregon, yet they store a disproportionately massive 42% of above-ground carbon in their trunks, stems and branches, according to a study published Nov. 5 in the journal Frontie…
As an ex-firefighter, Chris Dunn knows withdrawing from advancing flames is discouraging — but as a fire science researcher, he understands such retreats can be strategic.
The Trump administration will likely decrease the threatened Northern spotted owl’s critical habitat before the end of his first term, though the reduction may fall short of the timber industr…
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies claims the U.S. Forest Service failed to study how logging roads would affect grizzlies. U.S. District Court Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr. asked why it mattered,…
Shared-stewardship program works across jurisdictional, ownership boundaries. Some work completed.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — The family of a Klamath Falls man who died while working at the Columbia Forest Products mill has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
The University of Oregon is leading a study to test the hygiene and infectious disease control properties of mass timber in outpatient health care facilities.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — As the threat of wildfires has grown to a staggering level in California, so has its network of high-tech cameras watching the backcountry to spot the first outbreak of flames…
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — Nonindustrial private forest landowners in 13 Oregon counties hit hard by wildfires have until the end of the year to submit applications to the Emergency Forest Restoratio…
The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board is offering grants for private, non-industrial forestland owners to help with post-wildfire recovery following the Labor Day conflagrations that burned m…
Logging is set to start this month at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Blue Creek East Timber Sale in northern Idaho’s Wallace Forest Conservation Area.
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State University and state Department of State Lands officials participated Thursday in a two-hour remote session on OSU’s draft plan for the Elliott State Forest.
The Linn County commissioners want to know why a small blaze in the Opal Creek Wilderness Area was allowed to evolve into the devastating 197,000-acre Beachie Creek Fire that destroyed much o…
Fuel conditions, annual windy season, among challenges.
A planned prohibition against log exports from Russia isn’t expected to have immediate impacts on U.S. log producers but may create future market opportunities.
Despite the presence of familiar rumors, Elgin (Ore.) residents received a jolt this week when they learned their town’s 56-year-old Boise Cascade plywood plant soon could close.
Private timberland owners face a long road to recovery in western Oregon as they look to replant millions of burned trees following the calamitous post-Labor Day wildfires.
A Washington court on Tuesday barred the state Department of Fish and Wildlife from issuing timberland owners permits to kill black bears that damage trees.
WALLOWA COUNTY — More than 11,000 acres in the Wallowa Fire Zone and over 20,000 total acres within the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest are under consideration for a prescribed burn in the com…
Washington’s Department of Natural Resources will “aggressively” push for funding to combat wildfires, its leader says.
One tool for taking on troubling carbon dioxide levels is trees, and their natural process of photosynthesis that captures carbon in a process called sequestration.
Western Governors’ Association is leading collaborative efforts for forest and rangeland health.
ELGIN — The Boise Cascade Company announced it might shut down its plywood plant in Elgin in early 2021.
Bringing federal land managers together with stakeholders helps advance restoration proposals, keep large-scale projects on track.
PENDLETON — Infrastructure and forest management were among the primary topics of concern during a Wednesday, Oct. 14, virtual town hall held by Sen. Ron Wyden for Eastern Oregon residents.
Even as fires continue to burn in parts of Oregon, officials on the Sisters Ranger District of the Deschutes National Forest are preparing to ignite their own fires — part of the annual prescr…
A total of 45,886 fires had burned more than 8.3 million acres of federal land this year as of Oct. 15, compared to a 10-year average of about 6.3 million acres, NIFC reported.
The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay has proposed the largest project in its history: expanding the channel to 45 feet deep and 450 feet wide and allowing the port to take its place among…
The Idaho Department of Lands has named a new state shared-stewardship coordinator to help private and government foresters do a better job of coordinating the management of Idaho forests.
He harvested timber on the Sawtooth National Forest and sold it as firewood.
Oregon forest regulators have unanimously rejected the timber industry’s arguments against moving forward with a “habitat conservation plan” for several protected species on state forestlands.
Forecast: California's risk of large wildfires to stretch toward year's end.
The rate of recovery from Oregon’s recent devastating wildfires will be uneven but the effects will likely be felt for years to come, experts say.
Three conservation groups are defending plans to log, thin or control burn more than 20,000 fire-prone acres of federal forest in north-central Washington.
Biochar is a special kind of charcoal known to improve soil health and sequester carbon.
Cause of accident remains under investigation.
The Emergency Wildfire and Public Safety Act, S.4431, would increase active management of federal forests to mitigate wildfires and provide assistance to retrofit businesses and residences to …
Spread recently in strong winds.
A change in weather has slowed the pace of destructive wildfires still burning across Oregon, though forecasters say it will likely be weeks before the danger fully subsides.
We are in the heart of wildfire season and daily news reports summarize destructive wildfires throughout the western states.
REDMOND — Brian Frelich had a front row seat Friday to the generosity of Central Oregon.
REDMOND — About 200 Canadian firefighters gathered at the Deschutes County fairgrounds Saturday for an orientation and basic fire safety training before being deployed to help fight the wildfi…
A signature-gathering campaign is underway that would allow Oregonians to donate all or part of their tax returns to volunteer firefighting groups across the state.
From the tragedy has emerged a special sort of person — a Hero. This is a person or organization that went the extra mile to help a neighbor, friend — or total stranger. We want to honor these…
Washington's two largest wildfires are burning near each other in Okanogan and Douglas counties. Combined, the Cold Springs and Pearl Hill fires surpass in size the 2014 Carlton Fire, a record…
It’s barely more than a skeleton at this point, but the new building on the Oregon State University-Cascades campus already has one noticeable difference from many construction projects: cross…
Aside from experience, grass seed farmers are often equipped with six-wheel-drive military-style fire trucks, as well as three-quarter-ton pickups outfitted with water tanks — numerous such ve…
Washington’s air fleet and efforts to catch wildfires while they’re still small have helped keep the number of blazes down but the state is still headed for a record in acreage burned, the sta…
Firefighters in Oregon are getting much-needed help from private landowners and forest workers battling large blazes that have devastated communities and filled the skies with thick smoke.
Oregon's timber industry is bracing for an enormous setback as massive wildfires continue to ravage forests from the coast to the California border.
Organized by the group #TimberUnity, the event was begun through the combined efforts of basin growers and other statewide ag-related businesses.
Wind quickly drove blaze near Idaho-Oregon border.
The fires that have burned more than 600,000 acres in Washington since Labor Day are fueled by climate change, Gov. Jay Inslee said.
A U.S. district judge in Virginia has denied a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the Trump administration’s revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act.
The Hunter 2 Fire in northern Idaho is one of several fires growing rapidly across the state.
