by Working Forest | Mar 29, 2026 | News, Mill Operations, Trade And Policy
The federal government is placing a $115.2 million bet on timber production as the solution to two converging crises: a shortage of domestic sawmill capacity and a surge in catastrophic wildfires on national forest lands. On March 23, 2026, the USDA announced...
by Working Forest | Mar 29, 2026 | News, Sustainability And Carbon, Trade And Policy
A conservation easement covering more than 22,000 acres of Idaho timberland between Mount Spokane and Spirit Lake has permanently barred the land from residential and commercial development — while keeping the saws running. The deal, announced in late March 2026, is...
by Working Forest | Mar 29, 2026 | News, Sustainability And Carbon, Trade And Policy
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a $25 million loan guarantee to fund a biomass gasification plant in Calaveras County, California — a project that will convert forestry waste from National Forest lands into synthetic natural gas while removing material...
by Working Forest | Mar 26, 2026 | News, Labor And Unions, Trade And Policy
The numbers coming out of British Columbia’s forest sector in 2026 tell a story that U.S. tariffs alone cannot explain. The BC forestry crisis 2026 has been building for years — through mill closures, export collapses in multiple markets, a widening gap between...
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 | 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...
