by Web Editor | Jun 7, 2017 | News
Officials in Oregon have approved construction permits for the first all-wood high-rise building in the nation. Construction on the 12-story building, called Framework, will break ground this fall in Portland’s trendy and rapidly growing Pearl District and is expected...
by Web Editor | Feb 20, 2017 | News
Two lumber companies filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the legality of President Barack Obama’s expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument during his last days in office. Murphy Co. and a related company, Murphy Timber Investments LLC, filed the...
by Web Editor | Sep 8, 2014 | News
Timber is back at Rough & Ready Lumber Co. “It’s exciting to see those old faces and we walk out there and see everybody greeting each other.” Jennifer Phillippi is the owner of the Cave Junction sawmill that’s been around since the...
by Web Editor | Apr 19, 2013 | News
Citing a lack of federal timber, Rough & Ready Lumber is closing its 90-year-old sawmill in Cave Junction, Oregon the last mill operating in southwest Josephine County. The closure, announced Wednesday, means the loss of 85 jobs. It comes amid a Congressional...