By Rick Sohn, Umpqua Coquille LLC This is the second report in a series on the state of the economic health of southern Oregon’s Douglas County timber industry.  Last month, prices for Studs and Logs, which affect the timber industry directly, were described in detail.  This information is updated below. […]

From Curt Kipp, Oregon Association of Nurseries, With a new Congress now in session, pro-union advocates are taking to the airwaves with a campaign promoting the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). This proposal, often called the “card-check bill,” would allow union organizers to represent workplaces in which they can get […]

Guest Submission Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Salem, Ore.— New guidelines to address wildlife concerns in the face of rapidly increasing wind energy facilities in the Columbia Basin are now available. The siting and permitting guidelines were created by a multi-stakeholder task force to assist wind developers and permitting […]

Guest Submission U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management In a move aimed at accelerating the development of renewable energy on public lands, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today issued a Secretarial Order that authorizes the Bureau of Land Management to establish coordination offices that will expedite the […]

Oregon Department of Agriculture, Oregon’s foray into renewable fuels takes another step this year with an approaching requirement for diesel sold in the state to contain two percent biodiesel. The Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon Department of Energy are giving diesel motorists a heads up that the renewable fuel […]

Oregonians for Food and Shelter has provided this letter to the EPA by certified forester, Bruce Alber on the relabeling of Oust and the effect on Oregon. By Bruce Alber January 8, 2009 I am a professional forester with 34 years of experience with forest vegetation management.  I have tested, […]

By Jim Welsh Government Affairs Report Oregon Cattlemen Association The Governor’s agenda for 2009 includes his, yet to be final, “Headwaters To Ocean (H2O) ” Initiative, and final, “Jobs and Transportation Act.”  The agriculture stakeholder advisory group has continued to keep us, in the Natural Resource Coalition not included in […]

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 […]