Things Looking Up For Tall Timber

by Mike Geniella

The North Coast’s biggest timber operator says the economy is looking up in tall timber country despite the state’s still sagging new housing and home improvement markets.

Dark Times For Mendo Timber

by Mark Scaramella

In the beginning there was Union Lumber, which begat Georgia-Pacific and Boise-Cascade, which begat Louisiana-Pacific and Masonite and Jackson State Forest, and Georgia-Pacific begat Hawthorne Timber (aka the Washington State Pension Fund), which begat Usal Forest and Salmon Creek and Big River and the Redwood Forest Foundation and the Conservation Fund and the Garcia Forest.
All [...]

Local Timber Industry on Life Support

by Mark Scaramella

And the IV is about to be yanked out.
The recent decision by Calfire not to award a timber sale in Jackson Demonstration State Forest to the only (very low) bidder has sparked a controversy that reveals how fragile the entire Northcoast timber industry has become. Not only has the number of operating mills on the [...]