All the headlines from our Logging Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 3 2017 // Oklahoma has been placed under a national fire advisory as much of the state struggles with unrelenting drought and tinder-dry vegetation capable of igniting and quickly spreading out of control, state forestry officials...
Jan 24 2017 // Oklahoma forestry officials say the danger of wildfires is increasing as a dry weather pattern persists across much of the state. Officials say the fire danger is high and that Oklahomans should limit outdoor activities...
Jan 3 2017 // South Carolina investigators are sorting out why a logging truck plowed into a Greer auto repair shop, sending six people to the hospital and smashing 11 other vehicles. The Greer Police Department says it happened Friday,...
Aug 1 2016 // Lodge managers and cafe owners along California’s dramatic Big Sur coast were looking at a summer of jittery guests and cancelled bookings after fire officials warned that crews will likely be battling a wildfire...
Jan 11 2016 // The state must pay nearly $1 million after losing a discrimination lawsuit filed by a longtime Iowa Department of Natural Resources employee who said he was fired because he sought disability accommodations for a job...
Jan 11 2016 // Arkansas forestry officials say wildfires engulfed fewer acres in 2015 when compared to the previous year.Data released by the Arkansas Forestry Commission on Friday said 14,652 acres burned last year, compared to 16,687...
Dec 14 2015 // Federal regulators have cited a logging company for 22 serious worker safety violations.The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says Ray Clearing Inc. of Bickmore also was issued one other-than-serious...
Oct 15 2015 // The drought-plagued western U.S. has had more than its share of fires this year – but this may not be the last year that the nation sees so many wildfires gone wild.A Yale University professor looking back over the last...
Jul 1 2015 // The state of Arizona has settled a lawsuit brought by a dozen families who lost loved ones when a Hotshot firefighting crew was overcome by a wildfire near the small community of Yarnell.The settlement announced by state...
Jun 3 2015 // Victor O. Schinnerer & Co. has named Steve Falecki vice president and forest and logging practice leader. Falecki will lead Schinnerer’s forest and logging underwriting unit housed in Sacramento, Calif. He will...
Jul 3 2014 // Wildfires blamed in part on climate change are consuming timber in the U.S. West at such a furious pace that half the Forest Service’s budget is now spent fighting them — up from 21 percent in 2000.Add in the...
Jun 26 2014 // Dozens of property owners in central Arizona are suing the state, saying it failed miserably in its management of a wildfire that killed 19 Hotshots.The lawsuit filed in Maricopa County Superior Court seeks unspecified...
May 1 2014 // Loggers spurred by the high price of walnut wood have been illegally cutting down trees on private property in southern Wisconsin, a sheriff said.Rock County Sheriff Robert Spoden told Wisconsin State Journal this week...
Apr 21 2014 // Idaho officials have filed a lawsuit against a timber company and its contractor contending they’re responsible for a wildfire that killed a 20-year-old Forest Service firefighter and burned more than 300 acres in...
Apr 7 2014 // The warnings could hardly have been clearer. One technical report told of the “potential for a large catastrophic failure” of the 600-foot hillside above a rural neighborhood near Oso, on the Stillaguamish...
Jan 23 2014 // The city of Prescott has denied more than 100 damage claims seeking a total of $662 million for property owners and relatives of firefighters who died in the Yarnell Hill fire in Arizona.Ninety-one property owners filed...
Sep 23 2013 // Katrina Frye Shealy was the only woman in her insurance agency for years.It turns out that that was useful experience for her political career. Today Shealy is the sole woman in the South Carolina Senate. “It’s...
Sep 11 2013 // Katrina Frye Shealy was the only woman in her insurance agency for years.It turns out that that was useful experience for her political career. Today Shealy is the sole woman in the South Carolina Senate. “It’s...
Aug 29 2012 // A western Kentucky county is eyeing loggers and their trucks as the cause of damage to county roads. The Hopkins County Fiscal Court is weighing a measure to fine large trucks if they damage county roads while hauling big...
Jun 22 2012 // The South Carolina House this week overrode Gov. Nikki Haley’s veto of a bill that would provide an agency with new, safer equipment to fight wildfires. Meanwhile, the House upheld her veto of a measure meant to help...