In heavily forested Polk County, west of Salem, cuts to Oregon’s tax on the value of timber took away more than $100 million in revenue over the years, the news organizations found. Jeremy ...

Eighteen counties in western Oregon received a financial boost with more than $27 million coming from the Bureau of Land Management. The funding comes from timber harvested from BLM-managed lands ...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has distributed over $27.7 million in timber revenue payments to 18 counties in western Oregon ... to construct new county buildings, develop fairgrounds ...

Red rhyolite rock formations fill the Owyhee Canyonlands, a remote region of eastern Oregon, where one area ... One of those branches is a place called Timber Gulch, an approximately half-mile ...

The Oregon Supreme ... and funnels timber revenue to the counties. But 13 counties took Oregon to court, alleging the state was not maximizing logging on the forests. A Linn County jury found ...

according to the Lincoln County Leader. In addition, a previous timber mill, Prairie Wood Products in Eastern Oregon, suspended operations and laid off the majority of its employees on March 1.

The Oregon Department of Forestry is working on a plan to protect habitats for endangered species across 640,000 acres of state forest. The loss of timber revenue will affect local schools.

The Oregon Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will not hear an appeal from 13 counties — including Linn County — seeking ... more than $1 billion in timber revenue to the counties.

Thirty years later, in the second law, the Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands Act of 1937, Congress directed the Interior Department to enforce sustainable harvesting ...

In heavily forested Polk County, west of Salem, cuts to Oregon’s tax on the value of timber took away more than $100 million in revenue over the years, the news organizations found. Jeremy ...