Western Cascade Industries is closing its lumber mill in Toledo this week and putting about 50 people out of work. The Lincoln County Leader reported that mill employees were informed on July 22 the ...

UPDATE: A lumber mill in Toledo announced that it would close by the end of July, laying off 50 workers, according to the Lincoln County Leader. In addition, a previous timber mill, Prairie Wood ...

Astoria residents may not have noticed something so constant over the years it has faded into the background: every day dozens of logging trucks rolling through town with loads of timber. These trucks ...

EUREKA - A 30-inch-thick ponderosa pine tree with the words "Last Log" painted on it was sawed into stud lumber Monday, marking the end of an era in the northwestern Montana logging industry. It was ...

Amidst the aroma of fresh-cut timber one recent morning, Bill Kelly stood beside a log deck and motioned toward a huge swath of browning lodgepole pine. “It’s a sea of dead,” he said. A mechanical ...

The Ohio Forestry Association says the closure of Chillicothe paper mill will have ripple effects across the state. Despite attempts to save it, the longstanding Pixelle Specialty Solutions in ...