One Voice for Working Forests Blog

Things continue to look up for the planned $60 million Oregon Forest Science Complex at Oregon State University. First Seattle’s

We’ve written before about the need to educate the younger generations about forestry, from grade-school kids to college students. But

It’s been a big month for cross-laminated timber and tall wood buildings. So good in fact that we need numbers

While the wildfires in Washington still burn, wetter and cooler weather has slowed them down and firefighters are finally getting

The recent closure of four mills on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula has some local leaders wondering what they can do to

As Washington faces one of its worst wildfire seasons ever, including the largest fire in state history, attention is turning

The wildfire season is busy enough this summer that in both Washington and Oregon, many communities need help to fight

We wrote last week about how there seems to be wide support in D.C. to change the way the federal

As fires continue to burn in forests around the West, most people seem to agree that we need to change

Washington state officials recently confirmed what many people suspected: this is the worst drought in the state’s modern history. “We

The cross-laminated timber (CLT) industry in the Pacific Northwest received a couple huge boosts this month. First the U.S. Department

While the federal government considers revamping the Northwest Forest Plan and uplisting the spotted owl from threatened to endangered, there

The forest fire season in Washington has got off to such a terrible, destructive start that even a rain forest

Jim Petersen, the co-founder of the Evergreen Foundation, is a longtime and respected advocate for Northwest rural communities, forest landowners

Fish passages – those culverts you see underneath roads – are critical in allowing Washington fish to migrate both up

The closure of sawmills and paper mills is always impactful to the small, often rural, communities in which many of

It was just a few years ago that a coalition of aviation companies and other stakeholders were banding together to

Wood is a powerful and versatile material, and sometimes it feels like the range of its uses is practically limitless.

We’ve long known that lawsuits from environmental groups challenging timber projects can be damaging to rural communities and forest health,

When some people think of forestry of Washington they think about large timber companies, but in fact small forest landowners

Vaagen Brothers Lumber is located in the small town of Colville in Northeast Washington, but its profile in the forestry

The legacy of Billy Frank Jr. endures. The environmental, tribal and civil rights leader, truly a giant in U.S. and

Peter Goldmark isn’t happy with the state of affairs when it comes to Washington wildfire funding. The state Public Lands

The U.S. Forest Service is planning to essentially throw out the Northwest Forest Plan after 21 years. As we noted

In pure numbers, forestry in Washington produces far more trees than it harvests – for every tree harvested, three are