Finnish paper company to sever ties with logging firm linked to rainforest destruction in Indonesia UPM-Kymmene will stop buying paper pulp from Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited due to concerns over the company's poor environmental record
Roseburg selling off two timber tracts Three Coos County timber tracts are on the auction block, with two being sold by Roseburg Timber Products.
Quebec forest act abolishes monopoly Proposal calls for setting up a marketing board for the sale of almost a third of the province's timber to the highest bidder
MT - Blackfoot-Clearwater plan hears support A panel of sawmill workers, wilderness advocates, outfitters and land owners agreed it was better to work for goals they all agreed on than to continue old grudges
Logging pact for northern Arizona reached Two environmental groups and a logging company have reached a historic pact that could lead to the harvesting of nearly a million acres of small trees in northern Arizona
Google Map Assisting Wildlife And Renewable Energy Renewable energy sources dont have to conflict with preserving wildlife and wildlands in the Western U.S.
Cache In or Cash Out The patterns on the landscape are not only pleasing to the eye, but they provide a renewable cache for wildlife habitat, clean air and water
WA - Kudos To RSG, Port For Staying Out Of Court It comes as a relief that the Port of Longview has resolved its conflict with RSG Forest Products over six acres of land the port needs for its grain elevator project
OR - Saving private forests Conservationists are finally recognizing that the danger is not logging private forest lands, but losing them
MT - The fight over a logging project near Butte may finally be over The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed the suit; and environmental groups say they won't pursue the matter before the U.S. Supreme Court.
OR - Fall in wood products market redirects environmentalist strategy A rising number of environmental groups now want to help the timber industry stay in business by providing funds or other support.
Oregon's Chance For a New State Forest This year the Oregon Department of Forestry has been in negotiations to purchase part of a considerably larger tract surrounding the former timber town of Gilchrist, also in Klamath County
MT - The Amenity Economy The Western Larch changed colors in time to brighten the drive for travelers headed to the 3rd Real Estate and Development in the Rockies Conference
MT - Holley Lays Out Plum Creeks Plans Montana's largest private landowner has been both maligned and praised this year as it adapts to a dwindling timber market. Plum Creek CEO Rick Holley offers an inside look at what it'll do next
Mexican marijuana cartels sully US forests, parks Seven hundred grow sites were discovered on U.S. Forest Service land in California alone in 2007 and 2008
MT - The Bitterroot On The Leading Edge The land use patterns in the Bitterroot Valley are a consequence of past voluntary landowner initiatives, land trust activity, and exurban development.
MT - Maine Plan Has Whitefish Wondering Last Wednesday, Maine's Land Use Regulation Commission signed off on a sweeping plan by Plum Creek to develop 975 homes and two private resorts, some 2,000 housing units, on what once was working forest
ID - Allotments or Lots in Lemhi Valley Four landowners in 2005 understood that the changing pattern of land use in Lemhi Valley would soon alter a rural economy
Malaysia: Destroyed forest to be developed Some 12,000 hectares of degraded forest land in the interior of Sabah will be developed into a rubber forest plantation.
Weyerhaeuser tests access fee on Molalla timberland The annual permits, prompted by 'a few bad apples,' may spread to more Oregon sites
FL - Public Preserve Opens Its Doors BABCOCK RANCH In a remote pine forest where bleached animal bones mingle with saw palmettos, scores of Charlotte County children clambered down the new Footprints Trail at this 73,000-acre state preserve Wednesday
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. release new report The document, Forest Conservation Easements: Who's Keeping Track, summarizes findings from a convening of conservation interests and more
Road agreement language comes back to haunt land managers For decades, the U.S. Forest Service and private timber companies have shared logging roads, negotiating access across one another's ground and agreeing to split the cost of shared roads.
Montana Senator Jon Tester Concerned With Plum Creek Plans Months of closed-door talks between the U.S. Forest Service and Plum Creek Timber Co. have some Montana leaders worried the company is quietly paving the way toward wholesale conversion of forest land into residential real estate.
British Columbia forest companies and environmentalists reach agreement The former combatants over the future of the 6.4-million hectare region, dubbed the Great Bear Rainforest, said they were announcing their latest collaboration to demonstrate that they can work together