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A logging company has canceled a proposed road within a Bureau of Land Management project in Josephine County. Activists had claimed that construction of the route threatened old-growth trees.
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Generating money from logging state forestland has been hotly debated. Environmental groups are pushing for more habitat protection while counties want Oregon to meet legal obligation to maximize timber revenue for their benefit.
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"If you want something done right, do it yourself," goes the old saying. Some Applegate Valley residents took that advice to heart when they had issues…
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A lot has changed in Oregon's timber country in the last 20 years. So it seems only fitting that a collection of stories and essays about timber country…
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The most contentious portion of the debate over forest management concerns old-growth timber. Can the timber industry be healthy without cutting down…
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It's a rare thing when a timber mill adds another shift. It's far rarer that an environmental group applauds the addition. But Malheur Lumber is adding a…
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In the boom years in the wood products business, kids could graduate high school and head for the woods or the mill for a family-wage job. It's a lot more…
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What was once lost is returning. Rough and Ready Lumber closed its doors near Cave Junction several months ago, shutting the last operating sawmill in…
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It has been said many times that journalists and legislators know they've probably done their jobs well when many people are angry with them. Oregon…
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The Bureau of Land Management calls the plan for the White Castle timber sale "variable retention harvest."Environmental groups prefer "clearcut." Welcome…
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Oregon Senator Ron Wyden is introducing his long-awaited bill to promote logging on national forests in Eastern OregonThe Oregon Democrat's Senate Natural…
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There's already a wealth of opinion being offered on Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden's timber bill, and you can add to it on this week's VENTSday segment on The…
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Conservation groups are challenging U. S. Forest Service plans to log and thin outside Crater Lake National Park in an area that the groups want to see…
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The other shoe just dropped in the plan to reorganize some of Western Oregon's federal forests. The so-called O & C lands were already the focus of a bill…