Results for keyword: Logging Communities
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Bush takes a swing at community forestry
Hit hard by reduced federal timber harvests, Pacific Northwest communities now learn that President Bush wants to eliminate the $12.5 million Forest Service budget that would have assisted them with fire season and watershed restoration.
by Larry Swisher, May 13, 2002 -
Landmark timber deal stops Seattle sprawl
Overwhelmed by development in this bedroom community near Seattle, the town of Snoqualmie finds an ally in the Evergreen Forest Trust, which has purchased a huge tree farm that will enable logging to continue, and block sprawl.
by Dave Wortman, May 13, 2002 -
A new world in the woods
In many Western communities, forest workers are quietly converting their skills from industrial logging to forest restoration.
by Jane Braxton Little, Apr 01, 2002 -
Timber towns search for a new economy
North Fork, Calif., and other struggling timber towns resent the fact that the Framework places survival of the owl above survival of the logging industry.
by Chris Smith, Aug 27, 2001 -
Timber counties get new money
A new law is intended to give former timber counties federal tax money for schools and roads, without using the funds to increase logging.
by Rebecca Clarren, Nov 06, 2000 -
The Millworker and the Forest: Notes on natural history, human industry and the deepest wilds of the Northwest
A hike through the old growth of Olympic National Park with former millworker Jim Podlesny reveals more than one way to look at a giant Douglas-fir, and also at the life of a one-time logging community.
by Craig Childs, Sep 27, 1999 -
A quiet victory in Quincy
The controversial forest management plan put together by the Quincy Library Group in California is signed into law without much fanfare, as members of the consensus group brace for the next round of fighting over the forest.
by Jane Braxton Little, Nov 09, 1998 -
A tie that binds: county income and timber
Former Curry County, Ore., commissioner Peg Reagan has founded a grassroots group, the Conservation Leaders Network, to work on environmental issues and break the connection between county coffers and federal timber contracts.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 26, 1998 -
A county writes strict logging rules
Rio Arriba County, N.M., a pro-logging area, passes a far-reaching law to mandate environmentally responsible logging.
by Deborah Begel, Oct 12, 1998 -
Timber mills close in the Northwest
Boise Cascade Corp. sawmill workers blame environmentalists for sawmill closures in the Northwest that others say are the fault of the global economy.
by Stephen Stuebner, Aug 31, 1998
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