Oregon Wildfire Funding Update – HB 3940 For forest operators, the wildfire funding package (HB 3940) isn’t just anoth...

Republicans and Business Coalitions Lobby for Revisions   Oregon Democratic-majority legislative leaders on...

USDA Memo Streamlines USFS Timber April 3 rd , USDA Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins issued a  Secretarial M...

This week, Associated Oregon Loggers joined forestry leaders from across the country in Washington, D.C., for the 2025 Ame...

Oregon lawmakers are asking voters about raising more taxes to increase spending in the next State budget.  Repu...

Hard-copy of the updated 2025 4 th  edition,  Oregon’s Forest Protection Laws: An Illustrated Manual,  is n...

AOL partner association FRA has lobbied Congress, urging them to press the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to offici...

AOL Rejects the NWFP Amendment Associated Oregon Loggers (AOL) submitted official comments on the Draft Environmental...

The February business media headlines tell the story of how the new Trump Administration plans to reduce the federal agenc...

The Oregon House Committee on Environment held a January 30th public hearing on House Bill 3119, a good bipartisan bill th...

Fix Our Forest Act (FOFA), HR. 471.   FOFA would boost US Forest Service and BLM forest management by: reducing...

On January 16, 2025, the US House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) and U.S. Rep. Scott Peter...

Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on Nov. 21st adopted new rules to establish the 2024 Climate Protection...

Customarily, in September Oregon’s Legislative Joint Emergency Board would approve any necessary extra State firefighting...

The US Forest Service on Nov. 21 announced it has rescheduled public meetings to February/March 2025, for the Blue Mountai...

On 11/21, the Environmental Quality Commission made small temporary adjustments to the Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) rules, b...

The US Forest Service is again attempting to revise its outdated 1990 forest plans for the 5.5-million-acre Malheur, Umati...

A 2024 election “Red Wave” brings a sweeping GOP victory to the federal government in January—with President Trump back in...

Oregon’s November 5th legislative election bring significant changes for state governance, with Oregon Senate Democrats ga...

The US Forest Service is again attempting to revise its outdated 1990 forest plans for the 5.5-million-acre Malheur, Umati...

Chavez-DeRemer Tight Race in 5th Oregon Congressional District.   Polls show incumbent Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-...

Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is a confounding ballot measure that would have voters rank candidates in order of preference o...

The Oregonian Editorial Board published that “Oregonians should heed the state analysts, independent think tanks and elect...

This week, the US House of Representatives passed a proposed federal forestry improvement, supported by AOL and our indust...

Listen to a podcast interview of Nick Smith, director of Healthy Forests Healthy Communities (HFHC).  In August,...

In the 2017-20 Trump administration, federal forests were managed for multiple uses.  In the Biden-Harris admini...

The US Forest Service seeks public comment through September 20 on its proposed National Old Growth Amendment, which would...

A revised new fourth edition includes Private Forest Accord updates.  Oregon’s Forest Protection Laws: An Illustrated...

Oregon Dept. of Forestry (ODF) upgraded its E-Notification system to improve landowner advance notice of their forest oper...

Podcaster Rick Dancer has begun producing season two of his ‘Get Real’ series, called “The Truth About Timber.”  The...

Voters on Oregon’s November 5th ballot must decide about an added new 3% tax on business gross sales above $25 million ann...

On June 26th, the US House Committee on Natural Resources passed the bipartisan ‘Fix Our Forests Act’, HR. 8790.  Com...

The Oregon Department of Forestry is requesting volunteers apply for a few open seats on each of the three Regional Forest...

Federal Forest Bill Advances.   On June 26 th , the US House Committee on Natural Resources committee passed the bipa...

Due to several Oregon wildfires, Governor Kotek declared an Oregon emergency, effective July 12, 2024.   Additi...