U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) look at some old-growth logs in the yard at Viking Lumber in Klawock. The two toured Prince of Wales Island on June 5 ...

Can rising lumber prices create a logjam in the U.S. housing recovery? Dec. 17, 2012 — -- With lumber prices on the rise, analysts are watching whether the commodity could cause a logjam in the ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Thirty years after Oregon lawmakers began giving the state’s ...

Thirty years after Oregon lawmakers began giving the state’s timber industry tax cuts that cost rural counties an estimated $3 billion, industry lobbyists warned them not to follow through on efforts ...

Sawmills in all producing regions reported rising timber and log prices. “There is no economic sense to timber prices,” said one mill owner in the Upper Midwest. Another in the Carolinas said log ...

Many institutional investors (not to mention many Americans interested in expanding a home or building a deck) are wondering why lumber prices have soared in 2021 – especially when raw timber has not.

Lobbyists claim the timber industry is “up against the ropes.” Here’s what they’re not saying: Lumber prices are at record highs and profits are soaring. Thirty years after Oregon lawmakers began ...