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It’s long been known that wood is one of the greenest building materials in the world, and that wood was

The Seattle Times dropped the ball in its front-page story this week on the biomass industry. As the story points

While it is very popular nowadays for everything to be green and environmentally sustainable, as it should be, the federal

The East Oregonian Co., which owns seven small newspapers in the Northwest, started a series of articles this week called

Jerry Franklin, a retired professor of ecosystem science at University of Washington, and Norm Johnson, a retired professor of forestry

Forestry groups representing timber companies across the territory of the spotted owl recently sent a joint letter to the U.S.

The Seattle Times recently ran a laughable op-ed from an anti-biomass activist, full of wild and unsubstantiated claims about the

The federal government just does not seem like it knows what it wants to do about the spotted owl. First,

While biomass projects have recently made the news in Mason County and Thurston County in Washington state, the burgeoning biomass

One of the most dangerous biproducts of not actively managing forests is the infestation of the bark beetle. This tiny,

Earlier this month, we wrote about Hal Salwasser, the dean of the School of Forestry at Oregon State University. Salwasser

It was just last month that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it was putting off a decision on

It’s frustrating – especially with a new and flawed spotted owl plan under consideration — to think about the failed

No one seems to be happy with the new draft spotted owl plan released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

The same week that the public comment period ended on the new federal spotted owl plan, The News-Review in Roseburg,

Big news was announced on two issues that we have been following closely: the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to limit

As the debate continues over the proposed new federal spotted owl plan, the Oregonian takes an in-depth look this week

The Washington Forest Protection Association, the trade association for the state’s private forest owners, had its annual meeting last week,

As we wrote here and here, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is getting close to issuing a revised spotted

This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued guidelines for how states should interpret its new rules for greenhouse gas

The U.S. Green Building Council is now in the midst of voting (Oct. 25-Nov. 23) on new rules that could

The Oregonian’s opinion pages have been burning up this year with compelling debate on working forests, federal and state timber

There is more important news to come out of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) annual conference in Vancouver, B.C., last

There’s been a lot of attention lately on the EPA’s proposed biomass rules and the new proposed spotted owl plan,

The Oregonian had a good story recently about how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed changes in its greenhouse gas