timber industry

A $41 million grant could help create a pipeline of affordable mass timber homes.

The classic black-and-white photos from early decades of the American West often fail to capture the diversity of the people who came here. Chinese migrants helped build the railroads and were big in gold mining. Basque people from Spain became known for sheep herding. The first Filipino cannery workers arrived around the turn of the last century. Now, Oregon archaeologists are on the surprising trail of Japanese families who lived in a now-vanished lumber company town.

One lawmaker called the changes a ‘critical correction to an agency that veered far off course.’

For decades, corporate timber benefited from tax cuts that devastated local government budgets. Lawmakers want change and have filed dozens of bills, making this one of Oregon’s most consequential sessions for forest policy.

Timber was essential during the early mining era in Northern California for construction of the flumes that carried water to the gold claims. The first…

For many years, the prosperity of Ashland, Ore., like other Rogue Valley communities, depended on a booming timber industry for prosperity. Pioneer Abel…