timber counties

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources says one thing is missing from the state’s climate policies. Recent laws don’t allow the state agency to sell carbon credits. Department officials are pushing legislation that would change that law.

Four county governments in Oregon are still struggling enough that the state should continue to monitor their financial condition. That's according to a…

Counties across the Northwest that are heavily dependent on timber revenue from federal lands have been struggling to provide public health services.Now,…

Oregon U.S. Senator Ron Wyden says his latest proposal to increase logging on Oregon forest land will also respect environmental concerns. The Democrat…

Remember the "sequester" cuts? The dust is finally settling and the consequences becoming real for a program in the U.S. Forest Service that sends money…

Oregon's Congressional members are working on a plan that would dramatically increase logging on some federally-owned forest land in the southwest corner…

A plan that would give state government broad powers to step in and bail out struggling timber counties could advance soon in the Oregon legislature. A…