RIDDLE, Oregon (Reuters) - With prices of commodities rocketing upward, it is a great time to be a producer of oil, gold, corn and many other natural resources. Not so for U.S. timber companies, which ...

Two loggers and a nonprofit forestry consultant have been chosen as Oregon’s top forest operators for 2023. Ron Staley of Ron Staley Enterprises in Lebanon was recognized in the northwest Oregon ...

George Atiyeh, an Oregon logger-turned environmental activist, went missing during wildfires last week near Opal Creek. (Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center. ) As wildfire sped toward George Atiyeh’s ...

Former candidate for Oregon governor Betsy Johnson and a convoy of about 100 loggers, timber owners and students on Wednesday blasted an increasingly controversial plan for 600,000 acres of state ...

In 1923, a Missouri lumber company built a town in northeastern Oregon named Maxville. Hundreds of loggers left Arkansas and Mississippi to live and work there. Many brought their families, and many ...

The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, a remote expanse of wilderness along the California-Oregon border, will not lose any of its acreage after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up ...

JOHN DAY, Ore. — One of the most venomous battles in our polarized nation is the one that has unfolded between loggers and environmentalists in timber towns like John Day, in the snow-capped Blue ...

Photographs on the walls show images not common at Oregon heritage museums: faces of Black loggers and their families living and working in rural Wallowa County. Those images, along with other ...

WINSTON, Ore. – The morning had started well for logger Ricky Jones, working with his crew in a south Oregon forest. And then lightning struck. "The pain and feeling is unexplainable," the 25-year-old ...

We asked you, the fans, to vote on your favorite mascot in each classification within the state of Oregon and the Vernonia Loggers were selected as your favorite at the 2A classification. School: ...

A state forest plan that aims to protect endangered species across 640,000 acres of forestland west of the Cascades while providing certainty for logging is moving toward its final stages. The ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended the exemption granted to the Oregon Trucking Associations in March 2015 for certain Oregon-based timber operations from March 18, 2017 to ...