Timber

The $1 million grants will help the universities develop strategic plans for how to grow the region’s semiconductor and mass timber industries and improve its electrical grid.

A federal appeals court ruled Monday in a case upholding the expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Southern Oregon and northwest California.

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.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claimed in 2019 that two logging projects by the Bureau of Land Management in southern Oregon would not harm the endangered northern spotted owl.

A $41 million grant could help create a pipeline of affordable mass timber homes.

The Longview mill has been hit multiple times with allegations of pollution in recent years.

The court determined that managing state forestland for the "greatest permanent value" doesn't mean maximizing timber revenue.

A bill before the Oregon Legislature would set in motion a plan to create an Elliott State Research Forest that would preserve the oldest trees and protect vulnerable species while allowing some logging.

A federal judge has stopped a commercial timber harvest in central Oregon near Walton Lake in Oregon’s Ochoco National Forest sought by an environmental group.

The state still plans to establish the Elliott State Research Forest, but Oregon State University officials say the financial risk of owning the forest is too high for the school.