http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/314/16038 As privately owned timberlands go up for sale around the West, some communities are trying to find ways to keep their forests from disappearing in a flood of development No publisher Paul Larmer Communities Communities in Transition Logging Communities Real estate agents real estate ads housing sales development forests logging communities small towns land sales land prices Jane Braxton Little Spencer Beebe Ecotrust 2010-02-05T08:56:31Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/314/16037 As the West’s privately owned timberlands go up for sale, small towns like Glenwood, Wash., are working to buy local forests and manage them for the good of the community No publisher Jane Braxton Little Communities Land Use And Planning Logging Communities Glenwood Washington Jay McLaughlin Shade Tree Inn logging communities small towns socio-economics loggers Cascade Mountains Mount Adams privately owned timberlands forests real estate land sales timber companies Peter Stein Lyme Timber Com 2010-02-05T08:56:30Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15544 The U.S. Treasury Department has given $50 million in tax credits to Ecotrust to help depressed Northwestern timber towns carry out sustainable logging No publisher Michael Milstein Logging Communities Ecotrust New Markets Tax Credit timber towns logging communities socio-economics sustainable forestry stream restoration salmon Bettina von Hagen Grant Munro Pacific Northwest small towns 2010-02-05T09:24:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/292/15312 A Northwestern family finds itself in the midst of heated controversy over ecology and economics when it has to decide how to manage its timber farm No publisher Lissa James Logging Communities logging families timber farms salvage logging environmentalists board footage sustained yield forests old growth 2010-02-05T09:23:36Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/283/15022 Lakeview, Ore., survived the drop in the timber economy by learning to take care of its forests No publisher Greg Hanscom Logging Communities Lakeview Oregon Fremont Sawmill Fremont-Winema consensus collaboration environmental movement forest ecology Richard Hart The Wilderness Society Mike Anderson Lake County Resource Initiative 2010-02-05T09:21:20Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/252/14020 An ardent conservationist remembers her childhood in a California timber town that cut itself out of existence No publisher Louise Wagenknecht Logging Communities 2010-02-05T10:12:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/244/13729 A new study shows that logging communities received little of the economic help promised to them when the timber industry collapsed in the Northwest during the 1990s No publisher Michael Milstein Logging Communities 2010-02-05T08:41:35Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/226/11215 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. No publisher Larry Swisher Logging Communities 2010-02-05T08:53:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/226/11214 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. No publisher Dave Wortman Logging Communities Logging Companies 2010-02-05T08:53:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/223/11112 In many Western communities, forest workers are quietly converting their skills from industrial logging to forest restoration. No publisher Jane Braxton Little Logging Communities 2010-02-05T08:52:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10689 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. No publisher Chris Smith Logging Communities 2010-02-05T08:36:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/190/10079 A new law is intended to give former timber counties federal tax money for schools and roads, without using the funds to increase logging. No publisher Rebecca Clarren Logging Communities 2010-02-05T09:16:29Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/163/5266 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. No publisher Craig Childs Logging Communities 2010-02-05T09:38:28Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/142/4591 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. No publisher Jane Braxton Little Logging Communities 2010-02-05T10:07:36Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/141/4561 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. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Logging Communities 2010-02-05T10:07:26Z News Article