Timber

The Trump administration is proposing to define what land and water can be declared as “habitat” for imperiled plants and animals _ potentially excluding areas that species could use in the future

Five timber companies have agreed to change some logging practices to protect fisher habitat.

One bill would ban aerial pesticide spraying on state lands. The other would improve notification of when sprays would happen. 

Oregon lawmakers say they've revived funding for an expired federal aid program that provided money to rural counties whose economies relied heavily on federal timber harvesting.

Crook County’s plan is part of a recent movement in rural counties to resurrect an obscure federal policy and have more weight in federal lands management.

Longtime logging competitors meet up once again on the Fourth of July for the Estacada Timber Festival.

A long-standing trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada over softwood lumber is heating up again.

Crook County leaders voted 2-1 to reject the natural resource plan submitted by a local political action committee.

Before the great recession, Oregon was producing about 4 billion board feet of lumber a year. That dropped after the recession as people stopped building houses.

We'll discuss the plan currently under revision for the Malheur, Umatilla, and Wallowa–Whitman National Forests. It describes the social, economic, and ecological goals of the National Forest Service for public lands in Eastern Oregon.