OPB

Timber tax cuts cost Oregon towns billions. Then clear-cuts polluted their water and drove up its price

This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of ...
The Durango Herald

Boebert introduces bill to pay for logging, raise timber revenue

After Colorado faced its worst fire season on record in 2020, freshman House Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., introduced legislation to mitigate wildfires, as the West grapples with devastating burns, ...
AOL

Amid Trump logging push, will Oregon enter new timber era?

Editor's note: In honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Statesman Journal and its sister publication, The Register-Guard, are embarking on a yearlong ...
Modesto Bee

More prescribed burning, logging sought after nightmare wildfires of 2020

A task force has called for more prescribed burning, logging and other actions to deal with the wildfire fuel choking California forests and rangeland. The Governor’s Forest Management Task Force ...
Oregonian

Timber tax cuts cost Oregon towns billions. Then clear-cuts polluted their water and drove up the price.

On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of residents packed into the local firehouse in Corbett, Oregon, a town about 30 miles outside of Portland. Water manager Jeff Busto told the crowd that ...