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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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The best-laid plans in forest management can go awry. Even controlled burns can have unintended consequences, as happened not long ago in the Ashland鈥� -
Chris Bratt is all about the trees. He has plenty of experience using wood products from his days as a carpenter and contractor. And he's perfectly happy鈥� -
The height of the hippie years in America coincided with the peak years of logging in the country. And those trends came together in forest replanting鈥� -
The days of massive clearcuts of massive trees are largely over, at least on public land. And in this age of smaller-diameter trees, there's plenty of鈥� -
One of the major lessons we've learned about the world around us is the lesson of inter-connectivity. The parts of nature depend upon one another--and鈥� -
With more than seven billion of us and counting, humans are the most prolific primate species on Earth.This boon for man may be the undoing of apes, plus鈥� -
It's easy to find markets for big trees coming out of national forests, but not so easy to cut big trees in an era of environmental protection. So think鈥� -
When and where to cut trees is a constant topic of debate in our part of the world. In other areas, it's less a debate than a mourning process, as vast鈥� -
It's not just our loud music that escapes over the fence into our neighbor's yard. All of our pieces of land, big and small, are interconnected. And many鈥� -
Environmental groups have been calling for changes to the Oregon Forest Practices Act for years. A film at this week's Siskiyou Film Fest in Grants Pass鈥� -
You've heard of lots of different approaches to forest management, but "social forestry?" There is such a thing; and it's about restoring connections鈥� -
Fire and water both figure prominently in the state of the forests in our region. The size and intensity of fires indicates and determines forest health,鈥�
