News in timber

Washington’s Forest Practices Board approved wider stream buffers that remove 200,000 acres from timber production, Capital Press reported.

Campbell Global has acquired the 28,200-acre Emerald Ridge timberland property in Oregon’s north coastal and Willamette Valley regions.

The Ninth Circuit is weighing whether to revive an antitrust lawsuit alleging Iron Triangle and Malheur Lumber Co. suppressed competition in Eastern Oregon.

Chinook Forest Partners agreed to acquire South Coast Lumber, including 104,000 acres and manufacturing facilities.

Ontario wrapped up its 2025 wildfire season after 643 fires burned nearly 1.5 million acres, and the province announced new crews, aircraft, and investments for 2026.

More than 545,000 acres of Washington forests managed by the DNR are dead or dying as drought, storms, and funding cuts compound forest health challenges, KING5 reported.

Weyerhaeuser reported $459 million in timberland acquisitions across North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington and $410 million in divestitures in Oregon, Georgia, Alabama, and Virginia.

The US Forest Service will issue a new draft of the Northwest Forest Plan next fall, restarting efforts to revise logging and conservation rules across 25 million acres, OPB reported.

A US plan to kill up to 450,000 barred owls to protect northern spotted owls has united timber interests and environmentalists in rare support, the LA Times reported.