Washington’s private forest landowners are committed to green, sustainable forestry, but don’t always get credit for it. This campaign educates the public about the industry’s stewardship of the land through its support of the Forests & Fish Law. The results were gratifying: Site visits were up 117%—while the industry recorded the best approval scores in the 20-year history of its annual public opinion survey.
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The “Wild Olympics” campaign to expand the borders of Olympic National Park in Washington has been waged for years. But timber companies were rightly wary of the proposal because it would have taken valuable land out of potential harvest. Now there is some good news to report. The leaders of the campaign, as well as [...]
The timber community in Washington has undergone a lot of changes, but as the Seattle Times recently noted, the industry “still cuts a big footprint” in the state’s economy. The state Department of Natural Resources just issued the Washington Mill Survey, which comes out every two years, and the results are encouraging. The 118-page report [...]
The effort to extend congressional payments to timber-dependent counties in Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho and Montana continues, but in many of the states, the damage is already done. A bill to extend the payments for one year is still stuck in the House, and there is some speculation that Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., being appointed [...]