Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife  CLACKAMAS, Ore. – After a difficult start to the 2009 fishing season precipitated by heavy snow and flooding, anglers are starting to venture back out onto the Willamette and Columbia rivers in pursuit of white sturgeon. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is reminding […]

Guest Submission Conservation groups filed two lawsuits Thursday challenging the Bush administration’s last major effort to boost logging in Oregon. The Western Oregon Plan Revision, known as the Whopper, would ramp up logging on the checkerboard of U.S. Bureau of Land Management lands in Western Oregon, including salmon and spotted […]

Note from the Natural Resource Report: I recently asked Rick Sohn, to share his background and perspective with a monthly report on the business status of the timber industry. Rick recently retired as President and CEO of Lone Rock Timber Company, Rick has had a 27 year career with Lone […]

From Oregon Association of Nurseries, Wilsonville, Ore. — In a survey conducted by the Oregon Association of Nurseries, 160 growers in 12 Oregon counties reported that damage to nursery structures and crops due to late December storms range from $18 million to $31 million. “It’s now clear that damage to […]

Oregon State University:  Oregon State University, which is a leader among Oregon campuses in its use of electric and hybrid vehicles, is poised to take a larger role in emerging electric car technology at a time when Nissan North America has announced a major zero-emission vehicle partnership with the state […]

Guest Submission: SALEM — Gov. Ted Kulongoski said he fears the four-year extension of the federal safety net will run out before the new forest management plan offered by the Bureau of Land Management is implemented in Western Oregon forests. The governor said he expects litigation from environmentalists will delay […]

Guest Submission: PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden says he opposes a U.S. Forest Service decision to allow a natural gas pipeline to run through Mount Hood National Forest. The Palomar pipeline would start east of the Cascade Range in Maupin and end on the coast in Astoria. The […]

From Oregon State University, CORVALLIS, Ore. – A national leader in analyzing the impacts of climate change will direct a new legislatively established institute in Oregon that is designed to facilitate research on issues related to global climate change. Philip W. Mote, the Washington state climatologist, will direct the Oregon […]

By Western Wood Products Association, PORTLAND, Ore. – With the weakness in the U.S. economy much deeper than was seen earlier this fall, Western Wood Products Association has scaled back its earlier forecast for lumber supply and demand for 2009.The Association reports Western mills are experiencing the largest downturn in […]

Posted by Curt Kipp, Oregon Association of Nurseries, Daily Digger Blog It’s a familiar pattern: new year, new minimum wage. In Oregon, the state-mandated hourly rate is now $8.40, up 45 cents from $7.95 in 2008. Under Oregon law, the wage rises each year, automatically, based on increases in the […]