Astoria residents may not have noticed something so constant over the years it has faded into the background: every day dozens of logging trucks rolling through town with loads of timber. These trucks ...

In addition to the multi-phase mill expansion, Zip-O-Log Mills is taking over the former Sheppard car dealership at 2300 W.

FORKS — Recent mill closures and Allen Logging Co.’s upcoming stoppage were hastened by the state’s failure to sell logs that were authorized to be sold on North Olympic Peninsula trust lands. A ...

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

HULETT—Jim Neiman says that the best-case scenario for his family’s timber mill at the base of the Bear Lodge Mountains is that it doesn’t shutter. The Crook County sawmill in 2022 shrunk to one shift ...

As truckloads of logs arrive at the newly opened IronWood mill near Dolores, trucks with stacks of veneer sheets leave for plywood factories. In between, ponderosa pine trees from the San Juan ...

Tariffs on foreign timber and an executive order suspending environmental regulations could revive a domestic logging industry. But it's unclear if the economics will support exploitation of forests.

President Trump is taking steps to bolster America's timber industry. Right now, about 30% of the lumber used by U.S. homebuilders is imported, mostly from Canada. So the U.S. has enacted new duties ...