PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The U.S. Economic Development Administration has awarded the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition $41.4 million to develop and expand Oregon's emerging mass timber industry. The award ...
ROSEBURG, Ore. — Roseburg Forest Products plans to spend $700 million for new and expanded manufacturing facilities over the next four years, an investment the company says will benefit Oregon ...
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- It's too early to tell for sure, especially considering some Oregon fires are still burning, but early estimates put the damage to Oregon's timber industry at hundreds of millions of ...
This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Private Forest Accord, a coalition representing both the timber industry and multiple major environmental organizations, has helped usher in substantial upcoming changes to ...
No Oregon community depends on timber as heavily as in years past. Tourism and light manufacturing join with schools, government and health care to provide jobs. But the more remote and rural the ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon's timber harvest dropped below 4 billion board feet in 2015, snapping a two-year run above that benchmark, according to statistics released Monday by the state Department of ...
In John Day last August, the Ochoco Lumber Company was looking for allies to help keep its milling operations open. Steve Pedery, conservation director for Oregon Wild, was there to lend his support.
Lobbyists claim the timber industry is “up against the ropes.” Here’s what they’re not saying: Lumber prices are at record highs and profits are soaring. Thirty years after Oregon lawmakers began ...
Other countries are already pushing mass timber high rises to higher heights. Pictured here: The 18-story Brock Commons tower in Vancouver. (Courtesy Acton Ostry Architects/University of British ...
The Oregon timberman stares back from sepia photographs into a future built by the trees he felled. The saw in his hands is taller than he is. The tree he's climbed dwarfs him in its old-growth ...