By Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Smoky Mountain forest’s woodland herb population has shown that climate may play a role in how forest understories recover from logging, according to Purdue University research.  Despite heavy logging in portions of the forest nearly 80 years ago, the distribution of trillium […]

AFRC News, American Forest Research Council In a brief filed on October 30, attorneys representing defendant-intervenor Silver Creek Timber Company asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals not to pay the exorbitant attorneys fees demanded by EarthJustice under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) for its work in defense […]

Farmland Restoration By Stewart Truelsen, American Farm Bureau Federation Who hasn’t driven by a suburban shopping mall with empty stores or through a big city with abandoned warehouses, boarded-up factories and vacant office space? Lately, a lot of foreclosed homes and half-finished condo developments also have been dumped on the […]

Information provided by USDA Economic Research Service Above: Equals annual average price for crops. Highlights Net cash income is expected to fall about 28 percent, to a level just below its previous 10-year average.

By Karla Kay Edwards Cascade Policy Institute Oregon is a leader in the “buy local food” movement, and buying fresh produce from local farmers’ markets and community supported agriculture (CSA) could become an even stronger trend in our state. People not only want to know where their food is coming […]

The Bend Bulletin ran an article this week taking in various opinions on what is the most environmentally best Christmas tree a family should buy.   Nationally, during the popular NY Rockefeller Christmas Tree lighting ceremony they are asking people to Text for a Tree to raise donations for tree planting.  […]

Oregon Joins Select Group of States in Calling for Reform of Federal Toxic Substances Control Act BY Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Federal legislation may be introduced soon; EPA administrator also supports reform Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Director Dick Pedersen today signed a statement of principles calling for reform […]

By Oregon Dept. of Agricultre, Prices and lifestyle alter what Americans eat Americans are eating a little less beef and pork, but more poultry. They like their cheese, but drink less fluid milk. Yogurt consumption is up, ice cream consumption is down. And, perhaps surprisingly, total fruit and vegetable consumption […]

By Rick sohn Umpqua Coquille LLC Housing construction is still down near World War II levels, but unsold home inventories decreased a full percentage to 6.5% as mortgage rates dropped below 5%.  Lumber prices are up.  See the 3-year price tracking and discussion of lumber, logs, housing starts and permits, […]

By Natural Resource Report, A sluggish economic climate, low wholesale prices and less consumer demand all spell trouble for Christmas tree farms across Oregon. In 2008, 7.34 million trees were sold in Oregon, propelling a $110 billion industry and the No. 1 producer of Christmas trees in the U.S. That […]