by Working Forest | Mar 26, 2026 | News, Corporate, Mill Operations
Work is moving again at the Dillard MDF site in southern Oregon. Roseburg Forest Products announced on March 4, 2026 that it has resumed construction on its Roseburg Dillard MDF restart — a $450 million plant that will produce medium density fiberboard and...
by Working Forest | Mar 24, 2026 | News, Mill Operations, Safety And Training
When an Ohio woodworking sawdust explosion ripped through a Holmes County moulding plant in mid-March 2026, it sent six workers to hospital with burn injuries and reduced the facility’s dust collection infrastructure to wreckage. The cause — sparks from a single...
by Working Forest | Mar 24, 2026 | News, Sustainability And Carbon, Trade And Policy
A piece of Louisiana wood pellet legislation 2026 observers had largely expected to sail through the capitol is running into an unexpected obstacle — and the opposition is coming from within the same building pushing it forward. The Louisiana Wood Pellet Manufacturing...
by Working Forest | Mar 23, 2026 | Markets And Economics, Construction, News
The Milwaukee mass timber project that was supposed to redefine what engineered wood could do at scale has stalled on a downtown lot, its crane removed and its contractor filing for foreclosure. The Edison — a 31-story tower at 1005 N. Edison St. developed by...
by Working Forest | Mar 23, 2026 | Trade And Policy, Markets And Economics, News
The BLM Oregon logging plan represents the most significant proposed change to federal timber policy in the Pacific Northwest in decades. On February 19, 2026, the Bureau of Land Management filed a Notice of Intent to revise its resource management plans for nearly...
by Working Forest | Mar 23, 2026 | News, Wildfires
A visualization of California’s forest management zones in the Sierra Nevada foothills — part of the state’s accelerated wildfire risk reduction effort. California’s wildfire fast-track projects have hit a milestone that would have been unthinkable...
