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Justin Higginbottom/JPRNon-logging forestry work, like planting trees or fuels reduction, is big business in Oregon. But if you鈥檙e picturing those doing this work as classic lumberjacks 鈥� plaid shirts, big beards, white guys 鈥� think again. Foreign guest workers make up much of this labor. And Jackson County is a national center for the industry. -
Hoedads Inc./Hoedads Inc.Since the 1970s, billions of dollars in federal contracts have gone to forestry work like replanting trees or fuels reduction. Oregon has long been a center for businesses getting those contracts. But that industry looked a lot different 50 years ago.
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A former worker has sued several Rogue Valley forestry companies, claiming they didn鈥檛 provide adequate training or medical care. -
Sides are debating whether the 鈥済reatest permanent value鈥� of Oregon state forestlands lies exclusively in their ability to generate revenue. -
The state still plans to establish the Elliott State Research Forest, but Oregon State University officials say the financial risk of owning the forest is too high for the school. -
Any resident of our region can tell you about the recent history with wildfires. They have grown larger and more destructive over time, as temperatures鈥� -
The forested lands owned by the state of Oregon are small when compared with the state's federal forests. But the state lands still play an important role鈥� -
Elliott State Forest was not producing the income it was supposed to produce for Oregon schools. So the state moved to sell it into private hands, and鈥�
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Humboldt Redwood Company trumpets its environmental stewardship to the public. But not all of the public is pleased with the company's logging on Rainbow鈥� -
You hear plenty about wildfires on public land, but that's got a lot to do with how MUCH Western land is owned by public agencies, primarily federal ones.鈥� -
Left unchecked, Sudden Oak Death syndrome could run rampant in Oregon coastal counties, costing something like $50 Million a year in lost wages in the鈥� -
You can count on two events after any major forest fire: 1) life returns to the forest, and 2) someone suggests salvage logging as a way for the forest to鈥� -
The world is aware of the conversion of forest to farm in many places. And governments and businesses have dedicated themselves to stopping deforestation鈥� -
How Oregon and other tree-rich areas use their forests will figure prominently in both the creation and capture of greenhouse gases. Emissions studies鈥�