Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A timber company is challenging Montana’s sale of a logging deferral to a Bozeman group, arguing ...

Tye Sundt, with Weyerhaeuser, stands alongside a stack of harvested lumber, one of which has a smiley face spraypainted on it. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Tim McEntire, left, with Montana Logging ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected increased regulation of ruling on Oregon-based lawsuits that the timber industry warned would cause regulatory chaos. In a 7-1 decision, the court reversed ...

The first timber sale likely to be harvested in a "roadless area" of a national forest since the Bush administration eased logging restrictions goes on the auction block Friday. The U.S. Forest ...

The Lolo National Forest is proposing to “salvage” log a portion of the 28,000-acre Liberty Burn near Seeley Lake, Montana. The Forest Service (FS) approved the logging using a categorical exclusion ...

Timber helped build Oregon, but, since the 1990s, the state’s western counties have lost thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in annual revenue. For decades, much of the blame for the downturn ...

LEWISTON – The budget reconciliation bill being debated in the U.S. Senate mandates a dramatic increase in federal timber sales. The Senate version of the bill calls for the U.S. Forest Service to ...

HINES, Ore. — A collapsed roof at the former Hines Lumber Co. timber mill symbolizes Harney County’s hard fall from its logging heyday. HINES, Ore. — A collapsed roof at the former Hines Lumber Co.

HULETT—Jim Neiman says that the best-case scenario for his family’s timber mill at the base of the Bear Lodge Mountains is that it doesn’t shutter. The Crook County sawmill in 2022 shrunk to one shift ...

The state does not have to conduct financial accounting for each and every timber sale on school trust lands, the Montana Supreme Court decided last week. The Montana Department of Natural Resources ...