FORKS — Allen Logging, the last production lumber mill on the North Olympic Peninsula’s West End, expects to cease operations by mid-July. The closure will idle 45 workers, including drivers, ...

A dozen Humboldt County high school students got a firsthand look at the logging and lumber industry last week, and learned about employment opportunities, with a special focus on current jobs ...

West Coast log and lumber exports increased 42% in 2011, led by increased demand from china. While total log and lumber exports were not a record, the amount going to China did set a record, said ...

The Pacific Lumber Co. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying that environmental restrictions are preventing it from cutting enough redwoods to continue making payments on the roughly ...

SEELEY LAKE, Mont. — It’s a moment months in the making, crews at Pyramid Mountain Lumber in Seeley Lake loaded and cut the last log in their inventory Tuesday. “We've never been out of logs, so never ...

“Stump speech” — during this election year, not a day goes by when we don’t hear that expression. Then, too, there are the endless variations we’ve become accustomed to such as “on the stump” and ...