Thursday, September 02, 2010
FORTUNA, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say a Northern California logger was killed after a Redwood log broke loose from a cable and rolled over him. Humboldt County Coroner Dave Parris says 36-year-old Esmeli Moran of Fortuna died Tuesday when a Redwood log slipped while he was standing below a ...
Friday, August 27, 2010 3:09 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Continued weakness in housing construction sent the Oregon timber harvest to near historic lows last year, the state Department of Forestry said Friday. The 2009 harvest was 2.748 billion board feet, a 20 percent decline from a weak 2008 and the lowest figure sin ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010 4:29 PM
GLENDALE, Ore. (AP) -- The Swanson Group is closing its Glendale sawmill and scaling back operations at its Roseburg studmill. The Glendale-based company blames the government for a short supply of federal timber and says the market has been deflated by lumber from Canada. The R ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:28 AM
Water that runs off logging roads through culverts and ditches should be subject to Clean Water Act regulations, according to a federal appeals court ruling. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision is expected to affect private and public forest lands that include manmade channels for ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:09 AM
A ranch company is suing the federal government for property damage allegedly caused by a fire that started in Oregon's Ochoco National Forest. The White Butte Ranch of Wheeler County, Ore., is seeking about $600,000 in compensation for reduced timber value, dead cattle, fire-fighting costs, refo ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:09 AM
A logging project expected to begin this month in Idaho's Panhandle National Forest has been stopped by a federal judge. The 2,000-acre project is intended to protect the forest from fire, insect and disease pressures, primarily through commercial thinning. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge has ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:09 AM
A federal judge was wrong to have blocked a tree thinning operation in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest, according to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2008, U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan ruled that the U.S. Forest Service violated environmental laws by allowing logging on about ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:09 AM
AZUSA, Calif. (AP) -- Sheriff's officials say a U.S. Forest Service employee was assaulted at a ranger station in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles in a bizarre and seemingly unprovoked attack. Sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker said the ranger was hit in the face with an unknow ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:09 AM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A federal appeals court Tuesday decided that mud washing off logging roads is pollution and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to write regulations to reduce the amount that reaches salmon streams. A conservation group that filed the lawsuit said if the ...
Thursday, August 19, 2010 3:49 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A wildfire in southwestern Oregon has quickly grown to nearly a square mile in area, and is expected to grow much more. The Oak Flat fire was burning Monday on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest about 20 miles west of Grants Pass on the eastern edge of the gia ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:29 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Richard "Dick" Wendt, a founder of the international door and window manufacturer Jeld-Wen Inc. and a contributor to conservative political causes in Oregon, has died. He was 79. A company spokeswoman said Monday that Wendt died Saturday at Oregon Healt ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:29 PM
WALLACE, Idaho (AP) -- For three days in August 1910, the mining town of Wallace, Idaho, was at the epicenter of national news. Over their morning coffee, New Yorkers read newspaper accounts of the fire that threatened to destroy the city of 3,000. Even British papers carried stories of t ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:08 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Forest restoration projects in Montana and Idaho are among 10 nationwide that have been chosen to share $10 million under a new federal program meant to unite groups such as loggers and conservationists that may have once had competing interests. The restoration p ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010 4:18 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A federal appeals court Friday cleared the way for logging to resume in an old growth forest reserve at a national forest in Oregon to protect northern spotted owl habitat from being lost to wildfire. In a 2-to-1 decision by a three-judge panel, the 9th U.S. Circuit ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010 1:18 PM
COUER D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- A federal judge has decided to put the brakes on a timber harvest project planned on more than 2,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land in Idaho's panhandle region. This week's ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge handed a victory to environmentalists and s ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 12:58 PM
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- The Forest Service is holding several events next week to remember the 100th anniversary of the Great Fires of 1910. The fires burned as estimated 3 million acres in Idaho, Montana and Washington and killed 85 firefighters. On August 20, the Forest S ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 12:58 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Housing development on privately owned forest land needs to be added to the list of threats to the nation's forests, according to a U.S. Forest Service report issued Wednesday. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a teleconference from Washington, D.C., that ...
Friday, August 13, 2010 10:19 AM
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) -- Even though demand for wood products remains far below peak volumes, Boise Cascade is preparing for the next boom. The Boise, Idaho-based company is spending $11 million at its Medford plywood plant to replace an aging dryer with one that boasts 50 percent more ca ...
Sunday, August 08, 2010 1:38 PM
RAVENSDALE, Wash. -- Small forestland owners cite several reasons for owning trees, but turning a profit is far down the list. Andy Perleberg, head of the Washington State University Extension forestry program, said privacy is the main reason. Behind that come pride of ownership, wildlife and ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 9:18 AM
RAVENSDALE, Wash. -- There are several taxes on forestry-related income and assets in Washington state, but woodland owners can be eligible for favorable tax rates. Chris Westwood, a forester with the state Department of Revenue, explained aspects of taxation to family forestland owners attending ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 9:18 AM
RAVENSDALE, Wash. -- Though the July 31 family forest field day was held west of the Cascades, Andy Perleberg offered a session specifically on Eastern Washington issues. "We're targeting absentee owners who live in the west," said Perleberg, head of the Washington State University Extension ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 9:18 AM
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- Officials with the Clearwater National Forest have put a proposed land exchange on hold while they consider whether it would be better to sell the property instead of trading it for public parcels. The trade, originally proposed five years ago, would have swapped some ...
Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:18 PM
SISTERS, Ore. (AP) -- About 30 households were ordered to evacuate and two rural subdivisions were put on alert, as a wildfire burned through rugged mountain forests in the Cascade Range of Central Oregon, authorities said Tuesday. Firefighters had scratched a line around the Rooster Rock fi ...
Thursday, August 05, 2010 3:58 PM
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- There's nothing modest about this proposal an effort to breach the gridlock over logging on public lands in Western Oregon. Oregon State University forestry students say they have come up with a plan that would increase logging, protect old growth, end clear-cutting, ...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010 2:58 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The U.S. Forest Service has suspended logging an experimental timber sale on the Willamette National Forest after finding a pair of northern spotted owls moved closer to the area. Forest spokeswoman Judith McHugh said Friday that they will wait to hear from U.S ...
Sunday, August 01, 2010 3:38 PM
Nursery producers are attacking a federal renewable energy subsidy that benefits forestland owners and others in the timber industry. The USDA's Biomass Crop Assistance Program, or BCAP, aims to increase the amount of energy generated from agricultural and forestry wastes. By artificially ...
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