Investors may be quick to assume that timber does not have much potential for investment. The opposite is true, however, as the price of timber has risen 5% annually. The Claymore Beacon Timber ETF ...

The Portland Timbers' iconic “victory log” will travel cross-country in honor of the team’s first MLS Cup, the team announced Wednesday. For anyone unfamiliar, the log is usually stationed in front of ...

As the traditional logging industry deals with unsteady prices and the challenges of globalization, the value of a new crop is coming to light: trees hidden under reservoirs, long given up for lost.

ROSEBURG, Ore. — Between being cut off the stump and entering a sawmill, logs are scaled and graded. That responsibility for many Oregon and California logging and mill companies is entrusted to the ...

In those days the forests were full, timber and work both plentiful. But now what was the last sawmill standing in Josephine County has hit the end of the line after yet another timber family had to ...