SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – Roseburg Forest Products plans on investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Southern Oregon. Founded in the region nearly 90 years ago, Roseburg Forest Products announced it’s expanding its manufacturing operations with a $700 million investment that ...
WILLIAMS, Ore. – The Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management to stop old-growth logging in the Williams area. KS Wild is claiming, a BLM program would remove around 500 acres of old-growth ...
JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. – A logger reportedly died in an accident east of Grants Pass. Rural Metro Fire said on the morning of July 13, first responders were dispatched to a logging accident high in the mountains above West Pickett ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – A dozen protesters were out in front of Medford’s Bureau of Land Management office on Thursday morning. They were there to protest the BLM’s Bear Grub Vegetation Management Project. Luke Ruediger with the Applegate Neighborhood Network said ...
RUCH, Ore. — The Applegate Neighborhood Network held a rally opposing the Bureau of Land Management’s Bear Grub Timber Sale today. In the mountains between Ruch and Talent, a proposed 1,200 acre timber sale by the Bureau of Land Management ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest was given $802,000 to reduce fuel for potential wildfires in southwest Oregon. The Supplemental Fuels funding will pay for work being done to reinstate forest resiliency and health in the Wild Rivers ...
BROOKINGS, Ore. – Federal officials are looking for the public’s opinion in regards to proposed timber harvesting in the burned-out area of the Chetco Bar Fire. The fire was started by lightning this past summer during a thunderstorm that passed ...
Medford, Ore. – Congressman Walden toured the Timber Products facility today to see firsthand how the tariff on China’s imports have already benefited the local product. He heard from many employees who say they are grateful for his efforts. Representative ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – Forestry officials are asking for public input about harvesting fire-killed trees in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. Many trees in the area were killed when the nearly 200,000-acre Chetco Bar Fire swept over through the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. ...
SALEM, Ore. – After announcing 18 Oregon counties will be receiving nearly $1.4 million in previously sequestered timber payments, the Association of O&C Counties released how much they believe each county will receive. Last week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior ...