Lawmakers have reintroduced the Resilient Federal Forests Act to increase the pace and scale of restoration on public lands and lower the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
An upcoming workshop will teach forestry professionals and family foresters how to restore the western white pine, the official state tree.
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SILVERDALE, Wash. — About 80 million acres of national forests are ripe for burning up, so the U.S. Forest Service will have to be smart about picking which ones to thin, the agency’s chief, V…
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Boise Cascade L.L.C. (BCC) on Tuesday reported first-quarter profit of $11.4 million.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Local, state and federal officials along with conservation groups and logging interests have to find common ground to reduce increasingly destructive wildfires in the U.S. …
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Land management officials in Idaho have put together a new online map so hikers, campers and other outdoor enthusiasts can know when and where to expect prescribed burns.
SWEET HOME, Ore. — A new class of Oregon high school students recently completed the three-day Forestry Natural Resource Leader Wildfire School in Sweet Home.
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PORTLAND — The U.S. Forest Service was recently joined by a timber company in defending the necessity of a 11,700-acre Oregon thinning project that environmentalists are seeking to block.
Georgia-Pacific Wood Products has announced it is closing its lumber mill in Coos Bay, Ore., laying off all 111 employees.
Technology can make the job safer
Robust fuels could boost activity in region's eastern, southern areas
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Late winter's big snowfalls provided much-needed moisture for Idaho's forests, says an expert.
Local fallout from the US dispute with China
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Additional dwellings would be allowed on some Oregon forestlands under a bill aimed at improving the intergenerational transfer of such properties.
Environmentalists and logging companies have both failed in their legal attacks against the federal government’s plans for managing 2.5 million acres of Western Oregon forestland.
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After 15 years of planning, studies and negotiating with Eastern Oregon communities, the U.S. Forest Service is scrapping three revised land management plans for the Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman …
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Researchers at Oregon State University are working on several studies to better predict the behavior and spread of wildfire on the landscape.
ENTERPRISE, Ore. — Six Eastern Oregon counties signed a petition last week asking the U.S. Forest Service to waive the agency’s travel management planning process for the Wallowa-Whitman and M…
TILLAMOOK, Ore. — A Tillamook High School natural resources program is in the final stages of completing a harvest and replanting project coordinated with ag and forestry industry partners in…
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Congress passed a spending package on Feb. 14 to avert a second government shutdown, with Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley and Republican Rep. Greg Walden pointing to key funding provisions…
The Lumberman of the Year award for 2018 has been posthumously awarded to Ted Freres, former president of plywood and veneer manufacturer Freres Lumber Co.
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LEBANON, Ore. — A blast of intense heat escapes the Carbonator 500 as Anders Ragnarsson opens the combustion chamber, revealing leftover tree limbs, branches and woody debris from a recent tim…
Upcoming Washington State University Extension workshops will focus on forest health and wildlife.
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Log and lumber prices aren’t expected to be as volatile in 2019 as last year, but experts still aren’t bullish about the timber industry’s economic outlook.
LOOKINGGLASS, Ore. — Ken Harrison works almost daily on his small woodlands property in the east side foothills of the Coast Range.
Aims to coordinate resources, expertise on landscape scale
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although he believes "We made some pretty good progress earlier this year," Rep. Greg Walden said he remains focused on efforts to reduce catastrophic forest fires and the r…
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ROSEBURG, Ore. — Members of Communities for Healthy Forests said at a recent year-end meeting they are making progress in getting their message across to governmental agencies and the public r…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — It's the most beautiful Capitol Christmas Tree ever.
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Oregon State University led a tour of the new Oregon Forest Science Complex, which is under construction on campus in Corvallis, Ore.
Invasive species will take the spotlight next week during University of Idaho Extensions annual forest health program.
Climate change is expected to increase drought and wildfire vulnerability in forests across the West. But new research out of Oregon State University shows that some places will fare better th…
BILLINGS, Montana (AP) — Creating fire buffers between housing and dry brush, burying spark-prone power lines and lighting more controlled burns to keep vegetation in check could give people a…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Boise Cascade L.L.C. (BCC) on Tuesday reported third-quarter earnings of $13.8 million.
GRANITE FALLS, Wash. (AP) — Charging documents say timber poachers were caught cutting 18 trees on Washington forest land off the Mountain Loop Highway.
SWEET HOME, Ore — The Capitol Tree is ready to make its way to D.C.
Opponents of a proposed transmission line in Tillamook County want to prevent a power utility from obtaining the power to condemn farm and forest land.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is planning to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture for permission to thin forests, clear out dead trees and do controlled burnings on protected …
LA GRANDE, Ore. — Just one month into his new position as regional forester for the Pacific Northwest Region, Glenn Casamassa is directing his attention to the widely contested Blue Mountain F…
SEATTLE (AP) Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY) on Friday reported third-quarter net income of $255 million.
The 2018 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree will be cut from the Willamette National Forest’s Sweet Home Ranger District on Friday, Nov. 2.
The volume of timber cut from Northwest national forests is increasing due to collaborative planning and growing state involvement in logging projects, according to an Oregon forest supervisor.
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — State and federal entomologists are tracking the spread of a tiny invasive insect that feeds on fir forests.
A federal judge has denied a request from several environmental groups for a preliminary injunction against a 500-acre logging project in Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest.
About 30 members of the crew stood in the morning still of the forest as Katie Sauerbrey laid out the plans for the day. Some carried shovels or pickaxes. Others leaned against trucks and peer…
SCIO, Ore. — Scio High School hosted the first-of-the-school year Future Natural Resource Leadership of Oregon Career Development Event on Oct. 11, drawing 193 students who competed in activit…
A two-year $55 million spending plan would dampen destructive wildfires by thinning forests and enlarging the Washington Department of Natural Resources firefighting force, Lands Commissioner …
The Oregon Department of Agriculture is investigating potentially widespread tree damage because of the chemical.
COLVILLE, Wash. — Russ Vaagen, whose family has a 66-year-long history in Washington state’s timber industry, sees a future in mass timber.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — After a summer wildfire season that blanketed much of the West in smoke, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley introduced a bill Wednesday that would reduce the severity of wildfire by thi…
PORTLAND — As a lifelong hunter and fisherman, Joe Furia said he has always taken a keen interest in natural resources management.
The U.S. Forest Service was scheduled to present a plan Monday in Sisters to log trees that the Oregon Department of Transportation accidentally killed along a scenic drive. The culprit is an …
Forests and farmland are identified as the major sources of mercury pollution in the Willamette basin’s waterways in a modeling study commissioned by Oregon’s environmental regulators.