Roseburg selling off two timber tracts
Three Coos County timber tracts are on the auction block, with two being sold by Roseburg Timber Products. John Rosenthal, president of Realty Marketing/Northwest said Roseburg isn t selling out. It s just selling off smaller, scattered tracts and fo...
 1.7K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 65.0 Timber sale will destroy watershed
There will be an Oregon Department of Forestry Timber Sale, Stull s Ridge No. 33, Contract No. 341-10-31, on Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Coos District Coos Forest Patrol Crewhouse, 63612 Fifth Road, in Coos Bay (267-4136). This is an auction that goes...
2.5K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 416.0 Native flowers help birds, insects, ecosystem
Flower fanciers have generally forsaken native plants over the years for the fashionable and the flashy, but the robust perennials are quickly becoming garden chic and the center of an ongoing conservation campaign. The handbook of the natural landsc...
6.0K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 65.0 Interior, BLM offers 62 timber sales in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced a crop of timber sales for federal lands in Western Oregon intended to keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a new long-term forest management strategy....
4.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 1000.0 Loggers buy BLM timber
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management s Coos Bay District sold three timber thinning sales Friday, totaling 13 million board feet, a press release said. The Hatchet Job DM timber sale, located in Douglas County, was purchased by S.A. Schuyler Son of M...
0.8K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 500.0 Oregon Outdoor Report: Local Chinook fishing consistent
Chinook fishing has been very consistent in all of our local rivers. The Coos system is producing good catches, but the vast majority of the fish are jacks. This has become one of the largest returns of jack Chinook to the Coos River in modern times....
3.2K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 65.0 Weyco sells land in NW Oregon
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (AP) Weyerhaeuser Co. says it has agreed to sell about 140,000 acres of northwest Oregon timberland for $300 million to an entity affiliated with The Campbell Group, a Portland timberland investment advisory firm. The fo...
1.1K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 118.0 U.S. court halts new timber roads
WASHINGTON A federal appeals court Wednesday blocked road construction in at least 40 million acres of pristine national forests. The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstates most of a 2001 rule put in place b...
5.7K - Aug. 6, 2009; scored 142.0 Oregon's 1 percent 'liquidation' sale
Two pieces of bad news this week about trees and their role in Oregon s economy: First, state officials reported a decline in timber revenue from state forests. That means less money for Oregon schools. Second, a gang of tree-climbing activists wants...
2.3K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 108.0 Slow timber harvest means less money for schools fund
It's business as usual for the Department of State Lands as the department continues to sell timber. But the rough economy will mean less money for local schools. The money from these timber harvests goes into the Common School Fund, which pipes mone...
2.0K - Jul. 30, 2009; scored 170.0 See you in the forest
BUNKER HILL A politically precocious preschooler stole the show Wednesday, as Oregon Department of Forestry officials opened bids for two Elliott State Forest timber sales. A couple-dozen environmental activists attended the event, held in the agen...
3.1K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 203.0 Bend: 'poverty with a view'
BEND This city in Oregon's scenic high desert once had one of the nation's hottest economies. Resort developers, bankers, construction workers and luxury car dealers rushed for a piece of the action. Now some locals call Bend poverty with a view....
7.2K - Jul. 20, 2009; scored 85.0 White House scraps Bush logging plan
GRANTS PASS The Obama administration on Thursday scrapped the Bush administration s last-ditch attempt to boost logging in Northwest forests by scaling back protection for the northern spotted owl. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that ...
4.2K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 195.0 Elliott trees fund schools, make jobs
The story about protesters stopping harvest of an Elliott State Forest timber sale (The World, July 7) needs to be grounded in some economic reality. First is the fact that in Douglas County our unemployment rate is hovering around 18 percent and has...
1.0K - Jul. 11, 2009; scored 117.0 Arrests clear site of protest
REEDSPORT Timber operators are free to return to work on the Umpcoos Ridge No. 2 timber sale on the Elliott State Forest. But 27 demonstrators who disrupted logging this week at the remote site 20 miles from Reedsport are headed to court, charged w...
2.6K - Jul. 10, 2009; scored 98.0 Activists: Blockade won't end
ELLIOTT STATE FOREST Environmental groups said they were calling in reinforcements after police arrested activists who blockaded a remote logging site nearly 20 miles from Reedsport. Police handcuffed at least 23 activists on Wednesday and drove th...
4.9K - Jul. 9, 2009; scored 161.0 Sanctimony in a treehouse
If you want to look down on other people, climbing a tree is a good start. You just perch yourself in a makeshift crow s nest and smugly survey the earthbound working stiffs whose livelihoods you re disrupting. Out in the Elliott State Forest, a band...
2.1K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 85.0 Police handcuff timber sale protesters
ELLIOTT STATE FOREST Police have taken control of a logging site in the Elliott State Forest near Reedsport, arresting at least 15 protesters. Oregon State Police and the Douglas County Sheriff s Office sent a team to the 79-acre timber sale at mid...
2.3K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 388.0 Protesters report arrest at timber sale
Police officers have converged on the site of an anti-logging protest in the Elliott State Forest near Reedsport. Two callers reported this morning that police began arresting activists at the 79-acre timber sale, but Oregon State Police officials ha...
3.2K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 340.0 Activists barricade logging road
REEDSPORT Roseburg Forest Products foresters expected to hear chain saws this week in the Umpcoos Ridge No. 2 timber sale on the Elliott State Forest. Instead, activists with Earth First! and Cascadia Rising Tide barricaded a logging road about 16 ...
3.6K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 171.0 | 
