Astoria residents may not have noticed something so constant over the years it has faded into the background: every day dozens of logging trucks rolling through town with loads of timber. These trucks ...

FORKS — Allen Logging Co., the last production lumber mill on the North Olympic Peninsula’s West End, expects to cease operating by mid-July. The closure will idle 45 workers, including drivers, ...

HULETT—Jim Neiman says that the best-case scenario for his family’s timber mill at the base of the Bear Lodge Mountains is that it doesn’t shutter. The Crook County sawmill in 2022 shrunk to one shift ...

FORKS — Recent mill closures and Allen Logging Co.’s upcoming stoppage were hastened by the state’s failure to sell logs that were authorized to be sold on North Olympic Peninsula trust lands. A ...