A bit of good news for Tillamook County residents, Mark Elston, Plant Manager at Hampton Lumber just emailed that the Hampton Lumber employee’s COVID-19 test was NEGATIVE. Stay home and […]
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A landmark Memorandum of Understanding was signed on February 7, 2020 between environmental groups and industrial timber corporations. Yes, we’ve all been wondering, and feeling frustrated, about the timing of […]
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Gwendolyn Endicott wrote this story about the informational rally that North Coast Communities For Watershed Protection (NCCWP) held in Wheeler on Saturday, January 11, 2020. Her story is a gift […]
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Oregonians are invited to information sessions in Astoria on Feb. 24 and Salem Feb. 26 for an overview of planned timber sales and projects in state forests managed by the […]
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On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, there will be FERNS training session from 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm in the Hatfield Room at the main Tillamook County Library in Tillamook. All […]
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By Craig Mackie Recently, the Linn County jury determined that the State had indeed breached a long-standing contract with the 13 plaintiff forest trust counties. As Mr. Yamamoto wrote in […]
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By Peter Hayes Hayes and his family own and care for Hyla Woods in the Oregon Coast Range. Hayes served on the Oregon Board of Forestry from 2007 to 2011. […]
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By Tillamook County Commissioner David Yamamoto After a monthlong trial, after hearing more than 100 hours of testimony and reviewing hundreds of exhibits, some going back to the early 1900’s, […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The ruling found that the state of Oregon breached its contract with timber counties west of the Cascades by failing to generate sufficient revenue through logging on state […]
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At daybreak on Nov. 6, fifteen men armed with chainsaws climbed into pickup trucks and drove up a gravel road onto Boneyard Ridge on Tillamook Head. By day’s end, they […]
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