Timber sale will destroy watershed
There will be an Oregon Department of Forestry Timber Sale, Stull s Ridge No. 33, Contract No. 341-10-31, on Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Coos District Coos Forest Patrol Crewhouse, 63612 Fifth Road, in Coos Bay (267-4136). This is an auction that goes...
 2.5K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 261.0 Myrtle Point mill expands, hires
MYRTLE POINT A local alder mill is growing despite a recession that is hammering the lumber industry. W L Lumber, formerly known as W L Contractors, has added a lumber-drying kiln and a planer to its existing alder mill and chipping facility. The ...
5.5K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 298.0 Service will honor fallen firefighters
The 28th annual National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service on Sunday, Oct. 4, will honor nine Oregon firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2008. The service includes honors for Edrik Gomez, 19, of Coquille, who died with six other firefight...
1.4K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 268.0 Firefighters contain fire near Medford
MEDFORD (AP) A 150-acre fire that burned a home in Ashland has been contained, and firefighters have completed a line around the 630-acre fire in Medford s east hills. Oregon Department of Forestry spokesman Brian Ballou said this morning that fire...
1.6K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 254.0 Helicopter spray is legit
Question: Who is spraying with a helicopter on the hillside off of East Bay Drive and is it legal? Answer: Lone Rock Timber Company of Roseburg was spraying herbicide with a helicopter in that area Sept. 3-4. The herbicide kills brush that compete...
0.9K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 222.0 Insurers warn property owners to prevent fires
BAKER CITY (AP) Insurance companies have begun telling some policyholders in Eastern Oregon to protect their buildings against wildfires, say industry and government officials. One Oregon Department of Forestry official said he s been doing wildfir...
1.8K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 Dry land prompts closures
Public and private timberland owners are announcing closures and restrictions to public access of their lands due to dry weather and abandoned campfires. Fire crews have been busy because abandoned campfires have ignited small brush fires. Campers sh...
0.9K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 180.0 Officials renew warnings about insects in firewood
SALEM, Ore. (AP) Firewood may be a threat to Oregon forests and its nursery industry if insect pests from out of state are hitching a ride inside. Officials say one of those invasive species is the emerald ash borer, which could crawl out of unburn...
3.6K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 488.0 Oregon's 1 percent 'liquidation' sale
Two pieces of bad news this week about trees and their role in Oregon s economy: First, state officials reported a decline in timber revenue from state forests. That means less money for Oregon schools. Second, a gang of tree-climbing activists wants...
2.3K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 333.0 Fire safety level rises
The ongoing heat wave has prompted the Oregon Department of Forestry to raise the fire safety precaution levels. Beginning today, most timber harvest activity in western Lane and Douglas counties will be restricted to the period from 8 p.m. to 1 p.m....
0.5K - Jul. 30, 2009; scored 159.0 Slow timber harvest means less money for schools fund
It's business as usual for the Department of State Lands as the department continues to sell timber. But the rough economy will mean less money for local schools. The money from these timber harvests goes into the Common School Fund, which pipes mone...
2.0K - Jul. 30, 2009; scored 270.0 See you in the forest
BUNKER HILL A politically precocious preschooler stole the show Wednesday, as Oregon Department of Forestry officials opened bids for two Elliott State Forest timber sales. A couple-dozen environmental activists attended the event, held in the agen...
3.1K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 377.0 Arrests clear site of protest
REEDSPORT Timber operators are free to return to work on the Umpcoos Ridge No. 2 timber sale on the Elliott State Forest. But 27 demonstrators who disrupted logging this week at the remote site 20 miles from Reedsport are headed to court, charged w...
2.6K - Jul. 10, 2009; scored 370.0 Activists: Blockade won't end
ELLIOTT STATE FOREST Environmental groups said they were calling in reinforcements after police arrested activists who blockaded a remote logging site nearly 20 miles from Reedsport. Police handcuffed at least 23 activists on Wednesday and drove th...
4.9K - Jul. 9, 2009; scored 828.0 Protesters report arrest at timber sale
Police officers have converged on the site of an anti-logging protest in the Elliott State Forest near Reedsport. Two callers reported this morning that police began arresting activists at the 79-acre timber sale, but Oregon State Police officials ha...
3.2K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 810.0 Police handcuff timber sale protesters
ELLIOTT STATE FOREST Police have taken control of a logging site in the Elliott State Forest near Reedsport, arresting at least 15 protesters. Oregon State Police and the Douglas County Sheriff s Office sent a team to the 79-acre timber sale at mid...
2.3K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 233.0 Activists barricade logging road
REEDSPORT Roseburg Forest Products foresters expected to hear chain saws this week in the Umpcoos Ridge No. 2 timber sale on the Elliott State Forest. Instead, activists with Earth First! and Cascadia Rising Tide barricaded a logging road about 16 ...
3.6K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 296.0 Biomass bounty
COOS BAY - The only evidence most people see of slash - the tops and limbs of trees left over after logging - are pillars of smoke rising off logging landings in the fall. Some local timber industry folks see something more valuable going up in smoke...
6.4K - Jun. 20, 2009; scored 548.0 Board votes to increase harvest on state forests
GRANTS PASS - Pressed by counties and the timber industry, the Oregon Board of Forestry has voted to increase logging in state forests in the northwestern corner of the state. The 4-2 vote Wednesday in Salem came despite a staff report that increasin...
2.8K - Jun. 4, 2009; scored 372.0 Timber harvest on Oregon board agenda
SALEM (AP) - A recommendation that could increase timber harvests over recent averages in state-owned forests will head the agenda when the Oregon Board of Forestry meets next week in Salem. The board staff plans to propose rule changes at the June 3...
0.8K - May. 26, 2009; scored 268.0 | 
