Mar 7, 2018 | News, News/PR
A commercial logging bill left “in limbo” has been declared dead for the session. Senate Bill 270, which would have allowed commercial logging in state parks to pay for park maintenance, was left in the Senate’s Natural Resources Committee about three weeks ago, when...
Jan 22, 2018 | News, News/PR
A bill introduced last week that would allow commercial logging in West Virginia’s state parks as a way to pay for the park system’s backlogged maintenance work has prompted nine conservation groups to form a coalition opposing the bill’s passage. Senate Bill 270,...
Feb 27, 2017 | News, News/PR
With support from his former state Senate colleagues, West Virginia Agriculture Commissioner Kent Leonhardt is pushing a bill that would transfer the Forestry division from the Commerce Department to the agency he oversees — a move that could restore forester jobs...
Sep 19, 2016 | News, News/PR
Loggers say they want to bring state Division of Forestry inspectors back to work as soon as possible, preferably through the special session being called by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to address state flood relief funding. The governor’s office says won’t happen because...
Jan 18, 2016 | News, News/PR
OSHA has issued two willful, 11 serious and three other-than-serious violations to A and S Tree Service as part of a local emphasis program in Charleston, W.Va., focused on logging. In 2015, 27 percent of all work-related fatalities in West Virginia occurred in...