Fire and Forestry
State finalizes redo of wildfire hazard maps, prepares new rules for high-risk property owners
by Alex Baumhardt, Oregon Capital ChronicleJanuary 8, 2025 Oregon fire experts have finalized their redo of state maps of wildfire hazard areas, showing that about 106,000 tax lots are in high-risk spots that could be subject to new building and landscape codes. Those property owners, who hold nearly 6% of…
Read More
Five tips to keep smoke out of your home and business
With the major McKinney fire burning close to California border, we know that along with the fire threat, communities nearby are also coping with the threat of smoke. Below are tips from Energy Trust of Oregon on how to keep smoke out of your home and the air in your home and businesses safe. …
Read More
Forest Service in Oregon and Washington allocated $291.2 million to address effects of natural disasters from 2019-2021
The USDA Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest has been allocated $291.2 million in disaster relief supplemental funding to address damage caused by the wildfires, floods, and extreme weather events the region experienced in 2019, 2020 and 2021. The funds will go to priority road and bridge repair, hazardous material/waste…
Read More
Oregon’s Forestry and Logging Industry: From Planting to Harvest
Oregon is one of the world’s great tree-growing areas. The state’s soils and climate provide ideal conditions to grow such commercially viable species as Douglas fir and ponderosa pine. Forests cover more than 30 million of Oregon’s 62 million acres – almost half of the state’s landmass. The Oregon Department…
Read More
CatchMark Completes $100 Million Sale of Oregon Timberlands to Roseburg Resources Co.
CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc. (NYSE: CTT) today announced that it had completed the sale of 18,063 acres of prime Oregon timberlands – known as the Bandon property – for $100 million in cash, or approximately $5,536 per acre, to Roseburg Resources Co. The property had been purchased in August 2018 for $88.8 million or $4,916 per acre. The company recognized a gain on the sale of approximately $23…
Read More
Fire Victim Housing : A progress report
By Jim Teece Publisher – Southern Oregon Business Journal It has been nearly seven months since the wildfires of 2020 devastated Oregon with over 2,500 homes lost just in Southern Oregon. I noticed that the FEMA trailers that were parked at the Jackson County Expo, that have been there for…
Read More
A crazy year in Review – Top 10 articles of 2020
By Jim TeecePublisher – SouthernOregonBusiness.com I am able to tell many things about the people that come to our website and what they do once they are on it because we use Google Analytics on the site. It’s a free and great tool for marketing but also looking back and…
Read More
Fire Information Website Launched to Help Rogue Valley Residents Rebuild
A new website for official wildfire recovery information is now available at RogueValleyRebuilds.org. Aimed at those affected by the Almeda and Obenchain fires, it brings together information from multiple organizations involved in the rebuilding effort. “Recovering from these fires is a regional challenge. The County and affected Cities can’t do it…
Read More
Social Media as the News Source
Over the next few pages, you will see photos shared online (I got permission to re-share them here) from artists and photographers and just normal everyday people with iPhones. This account of the disaster from the beginning to weeks after, offers a raw insight into the tragedy. We are the…
Read More
Creative Therapy
Between travels with my brushes, sharing the power of art and creative therapy in foreign lands, I jump in my VW bus and head up the West Coast visiting family and dear friends. On my drive north this time around, I receive a call. Fires are ripping through southern Oregon…
Read More
“Talent and Phoenix are gone Jim”
I live in Ashland and was working when the fires broke out, from my home office, as were all my employees at Project A, because of COVID and we are programmers and engineers, so working from home is easy. I first found out about the fire via a Facebook alert.…
Read More
Project A launches DonationConnection.org to help donation center managers get the word out on what they need daily.
After seeing posts from people that were looking to help by shopping for what was needed, and asking for lists of what to buy, and where to take it, and seeing posts by donation centers that were set up around the valley, and seeing emails from friends trying to help…
Read More