A sweeping Bureau of Land Management proposal to boost timber production across 2.5 million acres of Western Oregon is drawing divided reactions in the Rogue Valley as a March 23 public comment ...
PORT ANGELES — Dozens of protesters and counter-protesters lined U.S. Highway 101 to rally for or against the sale and logging of Aldwell timber, roughly 90 acres of what conservancy groups determined ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March aimed at revitalizing America’s timber industry by increasing logging on federal lands, streamlining permitting, and reducing regulatory ...
In western Oregon, public forests that once fueled rural prosperity — and later came under strict habitat protections that ...
Two years ago, Sealaska Corp. gave the Trump administration a prescription for managing the region’s millions of acres of forest. Open more areas to logging, the Alaska Native corporation urged, ...
Beth Nakamura / OPB For decades, the timber industry drove the economy in Oregon, a state where nearly half of the land is forest. Today, the industry has changed. Logging in federal forests, once a ...
Three national forests east of Missoula are proposing a plan to require continuous logging across almost a million acres of ...