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“I’d much rather deal with this than that,” said Matt Mattioda, gesturing first to a heaping stack of logs, then to the burn scar of the 416 Fire looming less than a quarter mile away. As he muses, a ...

A major tree-removal operation went down this week in Downing Research Forest on Philomath School District property.

Posted by Brooke Gilmore | Jul 13, 2021 The invasion of the spruce beetle has decimated millions of acres of federal forest land, impacting forest health and increasing wildfire danger. So when Monarch Ski Resort planned a project to mitigate the dead timber around their resort, not only was the clearing strategy a welcome announcement, but the use of sophisticated equipment on such steep slopes is a new approach. A crew from Miller Timber completed cutting operations on Monarch’s slopes of d...