In the middle of an irrigated high-desert poplar forest in eastern Oregon, an unlikely $35 million sawmill is under construction. The Upper Columbia Mill is being built within a 23,100-acre tree ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — About a year after the most recent announcement of a Montana sawmill closure, state lawmakers passed a bill creating a low-interest loan program for companies reopening a mill in an ...

Montana state legislators introduced legislation that it believes will help provide low-interest loans to reopen shuttered sawmills. One such mill, Pyramid Lumber, announced in March 2024, that it ...

A Portland man caught operating a chainsaw in a forest estate without a sawmill licence has been found guilty. The accused, David Taylor, appeared before the Portland Parish Court on June 14, 2023 for ...