One Voice for Working Forests Blog

Congress recently passed a one-year extension of timber payments to rural counties, with communities in Western states getting much of

Reaction continues to come in after the U.S. House’s approval last week of sweeping timber reform legislation – the Restoring

Today marked some of the best news out of Washington, D.C., in years: the U.S. House passed the Restoring Healthy

As we wrote earlier this summer, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is moving forward this fall on a four-year

The Rim Fire and other wildfires across the West this summer are once again pushing federal forest mismanagement and the

It’s been a tough summer for the Forest Stewardship Council. George Mason University released a study showing that an FSC

There seems to be a lot of confidence in Washington, D.C., right now that some sort of increase in the

While the spotted owl continues to grab headlines, another Pacific Northwest bird is having a growing impact on the timber

We’ve been writing for years now about two proposals to increase the federal timber harvest: one by Rep. Doc Hastings,

It was great to hear some strong advocates for working forests talk about the value of forest jobs on local

For two years now, we’ve known the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was planning to kill competing barred owls as

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March in favor of the timber industry on a key logging roads case,

One of the reasons that bark beetles have spread through forests across the West is because those forests haven’t been

Most of the attention — from media and politicians — the last couple years has gone to cash-strapped timber counties

Poulsbo’s Pope Resources has long been a timber company at the leading edge of forging partnerships between the forestry industry,

Oregon has been a proving ground for a couple years now for much of the debate over federal forest management

One of the most striking things about the fight between the two leading forest certification systems, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative

Forest fire season is upon us again, and this year is likely not going to be pretty. Washington Gov. Jay

As we pointed out last month, Weyerhaeuser is doing very well. Earnings for the first quarter of 2013 were up 30 percent

These are not good times for Josephine County in Southwest Oregon. With little federal timber harvest, the rural county is

All eyes are on Sen. Ron Wyden. The Oregon Democrat just took over as the chair of the U.S. Senate

Over the course of 24 hours this week, two forest land sales were announced that will protect Washington timberland from

Just as a new biography of its founder is published, Weyerhaeuser is riding high. Around its first-quarter earnings call last

The headline out of Lane County, Ore., over the weekend was cheerful: “Resurgence in building boosts Lane County wood products

It’s good to see political leaders from the West show some leadership on the importance of our rural communities and