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The Boaz and Forest Creek timber sales in the Applegate Valley are meant to harvest Douglas fir trees impacted by recent outbreaks of invasive beetles and drought.
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Old-growth trees provide vital wildlife habitat, help forest ecosystems and store massive amounts of carbon. But some activists in Southern Oregon claim the Bureau of Land Management is allowing the logging of old-growth trees despite recent calls by the Biden administration for protection.
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A traveling exhibit at the High Desert Museum in Bend depicts an early 20th century Oregon lumber town with a difference: The company there employed both Black and white loggers.
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A group of environmental activists blocked the entrance to Sierra Pacific Industries' lumber mill in Eugene to protest the company's contract to commercially thin public forest lands in western Lane County.
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Following the withdrawal of a controversial logging proposal for Lane County and surrounding areas, the U.S. Forest Service says it’s reworking its plans to improve local wildlife resiliency.
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People who work in the timber industry and experienced an income loss during the COVID-19 pandemic can now apply for federal relief aid. Congress approved…
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Barbara Dellenback speaks with Karl Morgenstern, the Water Restoration Program Manager for the Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB). The McKenzie River…
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Protestors gathered in a park near the Oregon Capitol Thursday to denounce what they called overzealous logging practices in areas burned in last year’s…
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The Trump administration has slashed protections for imperiled northern spotted owls on 3.4 million acres of Northwest forests, opening up the land to…
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A conservation group is taking legal action against the Bureau of Land Management for its proposed logging in Thurston Hills near Springfield. On Monday,…
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Local conservation group Cascadia Wildlands hosted an online forum Tuesday for community members to express their concerns about logging on land adjacent…
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In May 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump told a Eugene rally that he would rejuvenate Oregon’s timber industry.“Timber jobs have been cut in half since…