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• Collaboration offers suggestions for Panhandle Forests

  May 10, 2012 in Outdoors, Idaho on Page A1 For four decades, truckloads of logs rolling out of the woods were Bob Boeh’s primary interest in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. No surprise since his employer, Idaho Forest Group, … 4

• Lack of sawmills an issue for forests

  March 25, 2011 in Idaho on Page A10 Bark beetles have ravaged hundreds of thousands of acres of Colorado’s forests, yet that state has only one large sawmill left to bid on federal timber sales. That’s a problem … 2

• Priest Lake timber plans withdrawn

  December 7, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A7 The Idaho Panhandle National Forest has rescinded plans for harvesting timber on thousands of acres near Priest Lake pending additional environmental review. In a news release Monday, the Montana-based Alliance …

• Hart pulled from tax panel

    November 10, 2010 in Idaho on Page A5 Idaho House Speaker Lawerence Denney announced Tuesday that he’s removing embattled Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, from the House Revenue and Taxation Committee for the next two years and that he’ll … 1

• Hart takes tax argument to court

  November 2, 2010 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – Idaho state Rep. Phil Hart is going to court over state income taxes he owes, charging in 1st District Court in Kootenai County that Idaho’s state income tax … 3

• Hart makes timber fund ‘donation’

  October 31, 2010 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Idaho state Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, sent a check as promised to the state’s school endowment for $2,450, but he called it a “voluntary donation” to the permanent … 5

• Hart says he’ll pay state for timber

  October 19, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – Idaho state Rep. Phil Hart announced Monday that he’s sending a check to the state for logs he took from school endowment land in 1996 to build his … 4

• Vestal: Hart doing little to earn sympathy

  October 13, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A5 John McHone has a beef with Phil Hart. McHone thinks anyone who steals timber from public lands – as Hart did to build a log home in Athol – ought … 3

• Timber association will disband after 75 years

  October 7, 2010 in Idaho on Page A9 A longtime advocacy group for Idaho’s timber industry will close at the end of the year. Members recently decided to disband the Intermountain Forest Association at the end of December, …

• 2009 a terrible year for Western lumber production

  September 17, 2010 in Business, Region The Western lumber industry had its worst year in 2009 since records have been kept and the outlook for this year is even more dismal.

• Film details alliance at Colville National Forest

  April 21, 2010 in Features, City on Page A6 A new documentary about collaboration on the Colville National Forest will be shown tonight at the Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln St., in Spokane.

• Wood products company deepens its Idaho roots

  August 20, 2009 in Idaho on Page A10 BOISE – A landmark Boise timber products company is returning to Idaho’s capital city in a new incarnation. A group of former executives of Trus Joist Corp., along with Atlas …

• Former Trus Joist execs bring firm back to Boise

  August 19, 2009 in Idaho A landmark Boise timber products company is returning to Idaho’s capital city - kind of. A group of former executives of Trus Joist Corp., along with Atlas Holdings LLC, has … 1

• Western logging plan gets ax

  July 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 SEATTLE – Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday scrapped a plan, authorized in the last days of the Bush administration, to nearly quadruple the allowable logging on federal lands in …

• Not your run-of-the-mill loggers

  April 28, 2009 in Idaho on Page A5 In a 1934 photograph, two young women wear jaunty grins and double-bladed axes slung casually over their shoulders. Ruth Hoershgen and June DeGraff were 19 when they won a tree-felling …

• Timber company wants to drop road deal

  January 6, 2009 in City on Page A6 HELENA – Plum Creek Timber Co. said Monday it no longer wants to pursue changing the easements governing its use of U.S. Forest Service roads near company lands, changes negotiated … 1

• Residents hope to salvage burned timber

  August 23, 2008 in Business on Page A1 A wildfire spared Toby Rodrigues’ home last month when it roared through the gated community where he lives near Dishman Hills Natural Area. He was not so fortunate with his …

• Potlatch gets an earful

  May 8, 2007 in Business on Page A10 About 70 Steelworkers demonstrated outside of Potlatch Corp.’s annual meeting in Spokane on Monday morning, urging company officials to offer more generous wages and benefits to workers at its Lewiston …

• ‘Hypocritical’ Logging Draws Protests

  October 2, 1996 in City on Page B6 Rancher Ken Brooks doesn’t object to logging. He just thinks it’s hypocritical when it is done by a doctor who is an environmentalist and helped put an initiative on the …

• Groups File Suit To Halt Idaho Salvage Logging

  June 17, 1995 in Idaho on Page B4 Two Montana environmental groups have filed suit in federal court to halt salvage logging in burned areas of the Boise National Forest. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the …

• Gorton Wants Logging Quotas

  March 22, 1995 in City on Page B2 Logging levels projected for this year and next in national forests with northern spotted owls would become mandatory minimums insulated from lawsuits under a proposal Sen. Slade Gorton offered Tuesday. …

• Gorton Seeks More Logging

  February 9, 1995 in City on Page B3 Sen. Slade Gorton said Wednesday he probably will try to exempt President Clinton’s Northwest forest plan from U.S. environmental laws to allow more logging this year. And he said he …