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,...
Nov 8, 2017 | News, News/PR
In the next part of our occasional series on the timber and forest products industry – from seedlings to final products, we follow cut logs to one of West Virginia’s most sophisticated sawmills. Independent producer Jean Snedegar spent some time at Allegheny Wood...
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...
Feb 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
West Virginia is home to more than one-quarter of the world’s cerulean warblers, and if an $8 million habitat-improvement project is successful, that percentage might increase. The federally funded project will reimburse landowners who encourage loggers to spare the...