The Bureau of Land Management’s state office in Oregon increased its timber sales in 2025, leading to one of its largest ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon has made more than $13.5 million in timber sales in July, according to the Bureau of Land Management. Officials say the sales included 7.7 million board feet of timber ...

As the cost of fighting wildfires increases, state Sen. Elizabeth Steiner has proposed a bill — developed in consultation with the logging industry — that would shift millions in expenses away from ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management in November sold a combined 20.9 million board feet of timber across 1,242 public acres in Oregon, Idaho and Montana for $5,283,736, which exceeded appraised values ...

Oregon mills have announced nearly 500 layoffs over the past year, cutting jobs in response to poor log supply, weak demand and difficulty finding qualified workers. The job cuts have hammered cities ...

Republican-led policy directives could rewrite forest policies that affect public lands in Oregon and the rest of the West. New executive orders from the Trump administration last weekend call on ...

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. (KOIN) — Forests in the Pacific Northwest may be losing value due to wildfire risk and volatile timber pricing, according to a new analysis. Researchers at Oregon State University ...

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 ...

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