/Oregonian/ — When we thought 2020 couldn’t get worse, the windstorm and resulting wildfires from Labor Day created the worst fire season in Oregon history: bigger than the previous record-holding Silver Falls Fire in 1865, bigger than all the Tillamook...
May 15, 2020, Oregonian – Sturgeon Development Partners announced Thursday it will build an eight-story office in Portland’s Central Eastside, despite the deadly pandemic and the economic ruin left in its path.
May 11, 2020, Seattle Times – Orange juice cartons. Toilet paper. Electricity. Coffee cups. Lumber. The one thing all these things have in common? Trees.
Feb. 23, 2020, Register-Guard – Surviving through the spotted owl era, evolving logging processes and now climate change, timber communities continually face the sense that their livelihood and way of life is dubious.
Feb. 10, 2020 – Corvallis Gazette Times – A new deal between Oregon’s timber industry and environmentalists to protect forest waters, modernize logging regulations and create a new conservation plan was announced Monday by Gov. Kate Brown and...
Jan. 29, 2020 – Nisqually Valley News Washington state legislators are organizing bipartisan support for the timber industry and noting that forestry draws carbon from the atmosphere and could help the state meet its carbon reduction goals.
