One Voice for Working Forests Blog

Six months after the Oso landslide, our state and community are still in the process of learning and healing. There

Since 1975, TimberWest Magazine has been covering the West Coast timber industry one company at a time. It’s easy sometimes

In May 2013, it seemed like Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) was the great hope for federal timber reform. He had

Washington’s forests are in poor health, with trees diseased by pine beetles, spruce budworms and root rot. The situation got

The anger and frustration over the lack of federal forest management recently boiled over in Skamania County, Wash. It’s no

If recent news coverage and town hall meetings are any indication, anger is growing in rural communities over the lack

If you’re looking for signs that the future of the forestry industry is in good hands, look no further than

The wildfires raging across the West are spurring calls for congressional action to change the way that wildfires are funded,

The wildfire season in the Northwest this summer is unprecedented. Eighteen large fires have burned 900,000 acres in Washington and

The momentum behind the rise of tall wood buildings around the world is impossible to stop. The positive developments just

We’ve written a lot over the years about forest collaboratives, in which local and federal leaders, along with timber companies

Just about every week comes news of a lawsuit from an environmental group trying to stop a timber project. If

For people who don’t understand how sustainable forestry works, it can be easy to issue wide proclamations like “Don’t cut

A proposal by President Obama to change the way wildfire fighting is funded has received bipartisan support in Congress from

Sawmills are an integral part of their local communities. In many cases, employees have worked there for decades, with different

The increase in wildfires — and the cost of fighting them — in the U.S. is well documented. What hurts

Since the Oso landslide in March, the Everett Herald has covered the story with expertise, sensitivity and a compassion that

It’s been nearly a year now since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave final approval to a four-year project

There were so many people at Billy Frank Jr.’s memorial service this week that some of the crowd of 6,000

Billy Frank Jr.’s public life may have started with the “Fish Wars” of the 1960s and ’70s, when he and

Many advocates of working forests may not know that they have a friend in the Rolling Stones. It’s not as

When President Obama visited the site of the Oso landslide this week, he saw the American spirit at its best.

One of the best things about all the recognition that wood building has received in recent months is that decision-makers

Nearly three weeks after the Oso landslide, scientists are still studying what caused a massive hillside to break away, travel

The city of Darrington and the forestry industry are so intertwined that they are practically one and the same. The