One Voice for Working Forests Blog

Smart forest management is a need that gets more important every year. Because our country’s federal forests aren’t being actively

What a big week for the future of tall wood buildings. It was three years ago that the U.S. government

It’s encouraging to see Northwest voices come out in support of active forest management. As we wrote last month, forest

Doc Hastings is a Republican, and Ron Wyden is a Democrat. But both members of Congress are from the Northwest

The timber business is one of the oldest industries in the country, particularly in the West, but it never stands

There is one thing our local, state and federal governments can agree on: our nation’s federal forests are in poor

Timber and environmental leaders agree that meaningful federal timber reform in Washington, D.C., is closer than it’s ever been. Describing

With the passage of a new Farm Bill this week, Congress ended a legal battle over logging roads that started

Who knew that nanocrystals could be so important to the paper industry? Cellulose nanocrystals, a microscopic material produced by processing

Wild Olympics is back. The proposal to make 126,000 acres of Olympic National Forest off-limits to logging and also name

The Aberdeen Daily World this month made it official: Harbor Paper is not going to reopen. The story of the

Wildifires are tremendously destructive, with the largest fires burning miles and miles of forestland and sometimes property. For private forest

Northwest timber counties got some good news over the holidays when federal leaders announced that new federal timber subsidies won’t

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden is an ace up the sleeve for timber issues in the Northwest. The Oregon Democrat took

One unavoidable truth in the timber business is that our country’s small forest landowners are getting older. According to the

The bark beetle epidemic that has spread across the West in the last 17 years is unmistakable. Forty-six million acres

Forest collaboratives – coalitions of timber and environmental interests, along with local, state and federal leaders – are all the

After more than a year of anticipation, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., this week unveiled his plan to increase the federal

The timber industry in Washington is a real newsmaker. The Longview Daily News reported earlier this month about Weyerhaeuser embarking

The plight of our country’s timber towns has been well documented here and elsewhere. But it’s a story that needs

This year has been a good year for deals to preserve working forests in Washington. From Mount St. Helens to

The U.S. Green Building Council and its LEED building standard have been enjoying a de facto monopoly in the lucrative

Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark has long been a supporter of active forest management, including the use of

We’ve all seen the taglines: “Please don’t print this email” or “Save trees: Print only when necessary.” But most people

It’s not very often that one can have a front row seat to the complex process of finding, harvesting and