The Neah-Kah-Nie Future Natural Resources Leaders (FNRL) team toppled many 4A and 5A schools to place 3rd in last Saturday’s forestry event at Sweet Home. Three years ago, NKN took 12th place,…
Category: Logging & Forestry
Hampton Lumber Announces Closure of Sawmill in Banks
(Portland, OR, January 9, 2024) – Hampton Lumber today announced the indefinite closure of its sawmill in Banks, Oregon, where operations have been curtailed since October. “We are well aware of the…
Nehalem Valley Historical Society Presents: “Logging Oregon’s Coastal Forests” – Video Premiere Nov. 4th
Nehalem Valley Historical Society is happy to present Logging Oregon’s Coastal Forests, a video collaboration of Mark Beach and Carl Vandervoort. The presentation will be in the Performing Arts Center at NCRD…
Tillamook Future Natural Resource Leaders (FNRL) team cuts, saws, scales, and chokes their way to the top
Story, Photos & Video by Don Backman “Keep going. You’re almost there!” teammates shouted encouragement up at the girl climbing the tall high-tension powerline-sized pole. High up on the pole standing at…
OREGON DEPT. OF FORESTRY: Northwest Region Fire Danger Drops to Moderate for Public Use; Industrial Fire Protection Levels Also Change August 29thls
From Mike Cafferata, Forest Grove District Forester, Oregon Department of Forestry With the welcomed cooler weather Oregon Department of Forestry Northwest Region are dropping back fire danger levels, effective August 29th, 2023…
ODF WEST OREGON DISTRICT MAKES PROGRESS ON FIRES AFTER STATEWIDE LIGHTNING EVENT
(Dallas, Ore. August 26th, 2023 3:39 PM)– After the large lightning event that started the evening of Thursday, August 24, the Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) West Oregon District has made significant…
OREGON DEPT. OF FORESTRY: Over 1600 Lightning Strikes Spark Dozens of New Wildfires, ODF Coordinated Quick Response Keeps Fires Small
The lightning storm that woke most everyone up across Oregon late Thursday night, August 24th through early Friday morning, August 25th, had fire crews on the move. There were reported at least…
OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY FIREFIGHTERS WORK HARD TO PROTECT LIVES AND PREVENT ANOTHER “BLOW UP DAY”
TILLAMOOK, Ore—On Aug. 24, 1933, the skies west of Portland were darkened by an enormous smoke column more than 40,000 feet high as a fire that had started in the headwaters of…
OREGON DEPT. OF FORESTRY TILLAMOOK OFFICE ANNOUNCE WOOD CUTTING AREAS TO OPEN SEPT. 1ST
Oregon Department of Forestry Tillamook District Firewood cutting areas will open Friday, September 1, 2023. You may come into the office at 5005 Third Street in Tillamook, or call to purchase your…
Early Railroad Logging Book Event Marks the Arrival of Local Historical Classic at Tillamook County Pioneer Museum
By Neal Lemery; Photos & Video by Don Backman The Whitney Company Along the Kilchis River: A First Hand Telling of Logging in the 1920s, a long awaited historical book, premiered August…
