In the Summer of 1998 an enterprising fisherman and timber worker named David McCutcheon leased a bare acre of land from Ed Colombi Sr. The acre sat off Odom Lane about a mile north of Fort Bragg. McCutcheon needed a place to store the huge Doug Fir and redwood sinker logs he’d laboriously retrieved from [...]
A look at how Mendocino Redwood Company is changing the way company personnel draft Timber Harvest Plans.
How an enterprising fisherman and timber worker lost almost half a million in lumber on the Mendo Coast.
by Daniel Mintz
What’s the value of a forest? Humboldt County’s Planning Commission explored the question at its April 8 meeting and etched the answer into a goal statement that emphasizes both the ecological and economic value of forests. The Commission considered forestland parcel size, management and zoning issues as it continued to review the forestry chapter of [...]
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.
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. [...]
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 [...]
