News Articles Portland Oregon Residential Design United States Timber Houses Residential Architecture Cite: Eric Baldwin. "Open Frontier: Oregon’s Timber and Glass Homes" 08 Dec 2020.

Wall Street investment funds took control of Oregon’s private forests. Now, wealthy timber corporations reap the benefits of tax cuts that have cost rural counties billions.

A mass timber modular home supported by Gov. Tina Kotek, January 27, 2023 (KOIN) Kotek, who is a strong supporter of this project, looked at the homes currently under construction.

Sheine also says manufactured homes also face regulatory hurdles, which the Mass Timber Coalition-funded TallWood Design Institute is working to address. The organization received a $41.1 million ...

In Oregon, timber companies paid about $5 in taxes per acre of private forestland and about $12 per million board feet of wood, according to an analysis from the Legislative Revenue Office.

Oregon's timber harvest could drop to historic levels, as a collapsed housing market continues to undercut demand for lumber, shuttering mills across the state. The Oregon Department of Forestry ...

Oregon is one of a handful of states that place no limit on how much corporations or anyone else can give to political campaigns, and the timber industry has for years donated more to lawmakers in ...

Barbara Benedict shows pictures of her home in Otis, Ore. that burned down in the Echo Mountain Complex fire. The 2020 Labor Day wildfires devastated southern Oregon and destroyed thousands of homes.

Unlike its forerunners, which turned big logs into millions of two-by-fours, the plant assembles composite materials into sturdy, easy-to-use joists, beams and columns for homes and other ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — For Oregon’s forestry industry, it has been a one-two punch. The coronavirus pandemic struck first, disrupting logging, sustainable forestry and furniture-making, and closing ...

Although timber harvest allowed, 'stay home' order could shutter mills In Oregon and Washington, the U.S. Forest Service has approved roughly 400 timber projects. Of those, only about 30 to 35 are ...