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The transition from old-growth logging to recreation, carbon credits, and non-timber forest products doesn't come with a manual. It comes with a retir...
So there's this logger up near Crescent City. He's got a thirty-year career in timber, but his last lunch break story wasn't about a big haul—it was a...
It was a cold morning in Coquille, Oregon, and the town's last sawmill had just shut down. The rumor mill blamed cheap Canadian lumber, but the real s...
The smell of grilled burgers drifts across a church parking lot in rural Oregon. A dozen people cluster around a folding table covered with a paper ma...
So there you're, staring at a forest economy map your county extension office just released. You expected timber, maybe some wildfire mitigation. But ...
Forest digital twins are supposed to craft land-use decision smarter. They combine satellite imagery, GIS data, and economic model to let you see what...
Felling a 200-year-old Douglas fir takes guts. Reading the lean, the rot, the wind. Knowing exactly where it will land. That knowledge doesn't vanish ...
Most job boards list "Community Forester" as a single role. But anyone who has worked in forest economy transition knows that one person's j...
Three years ago, the Umpqua Forest Collaborative got a $1.2 million federal grant to construct a non-timber forest pieces supply chain. They trained 4...
You have a pile of logs. Maybe it is from a thinned stand, a salvage operation, or a small family forest. In the old model, you sell it to the nearest...
The forest economy is not what it used to be. Twenty years ago, you chose: chainsaw or spreadsheet. Today, you can weld a steel footbridge over a rest...
Your community forest board just asked for a 'digital twin.' You know that phrase from industry conferences, but now it's on your table with a budget ...