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Guest Column: Who will protect all the values of our forests?

Guest Column: Who will protect all the values of our forests?

Daily Astorian, 12/29/22 – In mid-November, the Oregon Board of Forestry met in Seaside to discuss, among other things, a new 70-year plan for state forests. At the meeting, environmental interest groups led petitions to support the plan regardless of the impacts to rural Oregon. Their solution to the ensuing drop in revenue? Decouple state […] Read More

OSU researcher helps UN develop sustainable forest products recommendations

OSU researcher helps UN develop sustainable forest products recommendations

Oregon State University, 12/27/22 – “Three-quarters of current total material demand is met through non-renewable natural re- sources,” the authors note. “Changing unsustainable consumption patterns is necessary to avert a climate catastrophe. Transitioning to a forest-based circular bioeconomy can be a significant step in that direction.” Read More

Lumber Company Grows Trees That Smile With Massive Grin for Oregon Drivers

Lumber Company Grows Trees That Smile With Massive Grin for Oregon Drivers

Every autumn in Oregon, motorists traveling down the route 18 receive a “beaming” smile from the hills above the roadway. Oct. 6, 2022 – Good News NetworkEvery autumn in Oregon, motorists traveling down the route 18 receive a “beaming” smile from the hills above the roadway. That’s because years ago, Hampton Lumber company logged the […] Read More

Opinion: Bipartisan legislation marks new era for Oregon forestry

Opinion: Bipartisan legislation marks new era for Oregon forestry

May 22, 2022 – The Oregonian Last week, the most comprehensive changes to Oregon’s forestry regulations in 50years were ceremonially signed into law. What is remarkable about the bipartisan Private Forest Accord is not just that it is the most significant update to the Forest Practices Act since 1971, governing the management of more than […] Read More

Washington DNR ‘Carbon Project’ Undercuts Washington’s Climate Goals

Washington DNR ‘Carbon Project’ Undercuts Washington’s Climate Goals

April 6, 2022 – AFRC – American Forest Resource Council (AFRC) President Travis Joseph had the following to say regarding the Washington Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) ‘carbon project’ on public working forests known as state trust lands: “DNR should follow the recommendations of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the best way to mitigate climate […] Read More

Guest Column: The true value of the state’s timber harvests

Guest Column: The true value of the state’s timber harvests

Each year, the Department of Forestry releases a report on the annual benefits of state forests. In addition to stumpage revenue, you’ll see an accounting of the number of visitors and miles of trails maintained, but you won’t see a valuation of the multigeneration, family-owned businesses that make a living in these forests. Read More

Lowe’s Announces 2021 Vendor Partners of the Year

Lowe’s Announces 2021 Vendor Partners of the Year

/PRNewswire/ — Lowe’s Companies, Inc. announced today that it has named Anatolia Tile & Stone, Chervon and Larson as the company’s 2021 Vendor Partners of the Year…Lowe’s has also recognized long-time partner Hampton Lumber with the Sustainability Award.  Read More

Restoring Oregon’s forests after devastating wildfires

Restoring Oregon’s forests after devastating wildfires

/Oregon Forests Forever/ — September was one of Oregon’s most destructive and damaging wildfire seasons in recent history, burning nearly one million acres across both public and private lands. Restoration and regeneration of Oregon’s forests will likely take years and require more than 100 million tree seedlings… Read More

Opinion: Wildfires show need to unite behind forestry solutions

Opinion: Wildfires show need to unite behind forestry solutions

/Oregonian/ — When we thought 2020 couldn’t get worse, the windstorm and resulting wildfires from Labor Day created the worst fire season in Oregon history: bigger than the previous record-holding Silver Falls Fire in 1865, bigger than all the Tillamook Burns combined, and bigger than the footprint of degradation left in the wake of the eruption […] Read More

The Oregon Timber Worker’s Truth

The Oregon Timber Worker’s Truth

Feb. 23, 2020, Register-Guard – Surviving through the spotted owl era, evolving logging processes and now climate change, timber communities continually face the sense that their livelihood and way of life is dubious. Read More

State timber plan worries the biggest employer in town

State timber plan worries the biggest employer in town

Jan. 6, 2020 – The Daily Herald – DARRINGTON — In a town where the high school mascot is the Loggers, timber is embedded into the community’s identity and its way of life. But changes in state forest management will put Darrington’s largest employer, the Hampton Mill, at risk. Read More

Mass timber construction is about more than just storing carbon

Mass timber construction is about more than just storing carbon

Dec. 19, 2019 – TreeHugger – It also can put people back to work and save our forests. TreeHugger has been covering the mass timber scene for a dozen years, starting with Waugh Thistleton’s timber tower in Hackney. Now Tim Smedley of the BBC talks to Andrew Waugh and writes a really thorough article that looks at the benefits […] Read More

To Tend & Keep It

To Tend & Keep It

Denise Silfee, Roots & Rivers – Don Arndt didn’t plan to become a logger after high school, but he has never regretted it. “Love the industry, love the people, love the work,” Don says. Don started D&S Logging with his father-in-law Sam Tyler, a lifelong logger, in 1983. Now his two eldest sons, Larsen and […] Read More

Hampton Lumber invests to make the most of logs

Hampton Lumber invests to make the most of logs

Nov. 1, 2019 – Daily Astorian – Each Douglas fir and western hemlock entering Hampton Lumber’s mill runs through several scanners as it’s broken down from a tree trunk into boards. As much of the log as possible is utilized for lumber, with wood chips sent to Georgia-Pacific’s Wauna Mill for paper making and sawdust […] Read More

The Wood Product and Carbon Connection

The Wood Product and Carbon Connection

10/7/2019 – USDA Forest Service— When we think of a renewable resource, the first thing that usually pops in our head are the solar panels on our neighbor’s roof or perhaps the water that flows from the mountains. Rarely does a stand of trees root in our idea of a renewable resource. But the cycle […] Read More

Let’s Fill Our Cities With Taller, Wooden Buildings

Let’s Fill Our Cities With Taller, Wooden Buildings

10/3/2019 – By Frank Lowenstein, Brian Donahue and David Foster, Opinion, New York Times — Trees are some of our best allies in solving the climate crisis. A study by scientists from Yale University and the University of Washington showed that expanding wood construction while limiting global harvesting to no more than the annual growth could produce a combination of emissions […] Read More

History & Innovation: Oregon’s Timber Industry

History & Innovation: Oregon’s Timber Industry

10/2/2019 – By Phil Morton, The Bottom Line — The timber industry has been a cornerstone of the Pacific Northwest economy since the 1880’s…From humble beginnings the timber industry flourished in the Pacific Northwest and plays a key role today in our modern economy. We asked two local members of the timber industry to give […] Read More

Women in the Woods: Michelle Skjei

Women in the Woods: Michelle Skjei

Michelle Skjei doesn’t take no for an answer. She turned a temporary job in July of 2005 to supplement her three boys’ school clothes into a permanent career that she loves.  Michelle is currently an accomplished Journey-Level Lead Electrician for Hampton Lumber, and she admits the journey hasn’t been easy. Read More

Logger Jay Browning honored for Big Creek efforts

Logger Jay Browning honored for Big Creek efforts

ASTORIA — Clatsop County logger Jay Browning of J.M. Browning Logging Inc. of Astoria has been chosen as 2018 Operator of the Year for the Northwest Oregon Area. Browning was singled out for protecting a fish-bearing stream within Hampton Lumber’s Big Creek Forest. Read More

Timber Joey, Timber Jim, Hampton Lumber and the story of this year’s Victory Log

Timber Joey, Timber Jim, Hampton Lumber and the story of this year’s Victory Log

Hampton’s crew on this day, one week before the Portland Timbers’ home opener, is a special one. In the back seats of his Ford Super Duty FX4 sit Timber Jim and Timber Joey, whose annual mission to find the team’s Victory Log has brought them to the mountain. In the coming hours, the team will identify, cut and prepare the logs that will be used through the 2018 season. Read More

OSU study: Coast Range trout thrive after logging

OSU study: Coast Range trout thrive after logging

KTVZ.COM news sources: A decade-long study of cutthroat trout in the Oregon Coast Range has found that logging practices conducted in accord with the Oregon Forest Practices Act had no adverse impacts on coastal cutthroat trout and coho salmon populations or movements... Read More

Hugging the forest rather than the trees.

Hugging the forest rather than the trees.

Kathy Abusow is President & CEO of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® Inc. (SFI), a non-profit that plays a central role in strengthening the vital links among sustainable forestry, responsible purchasing, and thriving communities. In this TEDx event, Kathy talks about how well managed forests provide products and benefits that help society at large. Read More

Modern, scientific forestry is sustainable and renewable

Modern, scientific forestry is sustainable and renewable

Trees are harvested then replanted. Nearly 100 million trees are replanted each year in Washington and Oregon managed forests. This cycle of harvesting and replanting stores carbon–not only in living trees in the forest, but in finished wood products such as lumber and furniture. Read More

Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers.

Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers.

Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and, he hopes, higher), it's necessary. Read More