Western Cascade Industries is closing its lumber mill in Toledo this week and putting about 50 people out of work. The Lincoln County Leader reported that mill employees were informed on July 22 the ...

UPDATE: A lumber mill in Toledo announced that it would close by the end of July, laying off 50 workers, according to the Lincoln County Leader. In addition, a previous timber mill, Prairie Wood ...

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 ...

Amidst the aroma of fresh-cut timber one recent morning, Bill Kelly stood beside a log deck and motioned toward a huge swath of browning lodgepole pine. “It’s a sea of dead,” he said. A mechanical ...

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 ...

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 ...