One Voice for Working Forests Blog

The Washington Post had an interesting story recently about a group of researchers who spent 22 years documenting the thickness

The Seattle Times published a story over the weekend about Weyerhaeuser’s use of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standard for

The Washington Legislature is debating the future of the Forest Riparian Easement Program (FREP), which compensates small forest landowners for

The headline, even with a question mark, is provocative. Is it possible that the forest wars that have been waged

The Center for Biological Diversity, an Arizona environmental group, has been very busy lately suing government agencies. Over the course

A lot of people outside the timber world don’t even know what the word “biomass” means, but that probably won’t

Maintaining working forests is not an easy job, and what just about everyone can agree on is that keeping the

It’s not just in the U.S. that logging towns are coming up with bold new solutions to keep their lifeblood

Biomass appears to be gaining more and more momentum. The Wenatchee World just wrote an editorial about the state Department

Two interesting articles came out today that demonstrate the benefits and struggles of the timber industry.  The first is a

We are reminded once again that “beauty” is in the eye of the beholder.  A One Voice for Working Forests

The Pacific West Biomass Conference & Expo? is meeting this week in Sacramento, and the driving topic is the emerging

Big decisions coming up on how Oregon manages about 650,000 acres of its state forests, including Clatsop and Tillamook. According

Working forests provide benefits for everyone, which is why it’s so nice to see such a broad coalition work on

A new study commissioned by the National Alliance of Forest Owners quantifies exactly how much private working forests contribute to

We are excited to start this blog and create a gathering place to discuss the value of working forests. Working