Nielsen Brothers plans to cut 54 acres of timber directly behind the community of 83 homes. Locals said they were never consulted. CONCRETE — A hillside rises 1,300 feet within less than a mile, right ...

PORTLAND -- The Oregon Board of Forestry is considering changing the rules for logging on private timberlands to make it easier for timber companies to cut on steep slopes where landslides may occur.

Employers intending to use winch- or cable-assisted systems for steep slope logging must ensure that the harvesting machine was specified by its manufacturer for operation on slopes of more than 40 or ...

In the fall of 2014 when Andrew Siegmund first witnessed steep-slope logging technology, it wasn’t exactly love at first sight. Siegmund said Weyerhaeuser arranged for a New Zealand outfit to travel ...

KOTA KINABALU: State forestry officials have found no logging activities on slopes classified as “steep” in the Kuamut Forest Reserve. The forest reserve comes under Yayasan Sabah’s concession area.

Chad Stewart, supervisor of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests, has described the recently released revised land management plan for the forests as one that strikes “the best ...

It takes a lot to fly pine trees off a mountain, but the cost of leaving them might be greater still. At least that has been the driving calculation behind the Bill Williams Mountain Restoration ...

After heavy rains triggered fatal landslides in 1996, Oregon rewrote its rules on where logging can happen in landslide-prone areas. Oregon forestry rules now say you can't log in areas with where ...

CONCRETE — A hillside rises 1,300 feet within less than a mile, right behind 83 homes known as Sauk River Estates. If a logging company carries out its plans to cut 54 acres on this steep slope this ...