One Voice for Working Forests Blog

There’s a financial crisis afoot across the Pacific Northwest, but unfortunately a lot of people probably don’t know about it

The news sounds great: West Coast log and lumber exports went up by 79 and 83 percent in the first

When we hike or fish on federal forestland, we see the people around us, but it’s hard to tell in

With newspapers cutting their budgets every year, the Capital Press performs an increasingly valuable service of covering agriculture, including forestry,

We wrote back in July about a tax exemption for woody biomass that is being threatened in Washington state. Despite

The Pacific Northwest congressional delegation is obviously not happy with the status quo when it comes to federal forest management

In the middle of a very tough week for the U.S. economy, it’s nice to read about a success story,

Two opinion pieces this week from Oregon writers, one in the Wall Street Journal and one in the Oregonian, provide

We wrote earlier this month about a recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that threw out 35 years of

Even seemingly obscure legislative committees can have huge consequences for the timber industry, and no one should assume that the

Sometimes what may seem like a narrow court case can have far-ranging consequences. A recent decision by the Ninth Circuit

The release last week of the final spotted owl recovery plan continues to reverberate. Newspaper editorial boards are beginning to

The release this week of the final spotted owl recovery plan by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service came after

The big story in forestry circles this week — by a large margin — is the ongoing saga of Sino-Forest

Wildlife is something that all forest owners have to deal with, for better or worse. Yes, animals are beautiful to

The Wallow Fire in eastern Arizona has now burned through 639 square miles of forest — adding 114 square miles

Mike Dubrasich, an Oregon forester and head of the Western Institute for Study of the Environment, gave a speech recently

The state of Massachusetts, in essentially ending any biomass industry in the state, has the unfortunate distinction of being the

Coos County on the Oregon Coast has a long history in the timber business. Back in the early 1900s, it

The announcement in January that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was putting off a decision on biomass plant emissions for

The Coos Bay World just published a great look at what the increased demand from China for timber means in

After months of delay, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week made a big move on the new spotted

We wrote earlier this month about a misguided campaign in Washington to raise forest practice fees on timber companies. State

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this week announced $30 million in federal biomass projects, just two weeks after he said

Peter Goldmark, Washington’s Commissioner of Public Lands, this week came out in favor of pouring millions of dollars in increased