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Ozarks News
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Timber operators meeting set Thursday (The News-Review)
ROSEBURG: The Douglas Timber Operators' breakfast meeting at 7 a.m. Thursday will highlight the upcoming Umpqua Community College logger career training program.
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Bush: Phase out timber net (The News-Review)
WASHINGTON President George W. Bush today proposed the elimination of the federal timber safety net program following a five-year phaseout.
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Report outlines use plans for small-diameter timber (The Mail Tribune)
The latest report on overcoming obstacles to expanding the use of small-diameter timber in Jackson and Josephine counties doesn’t offer a simple solution to the complex problem.
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Bush Budget Would Phase Out Timber Funding (AP via Yahoo! News)
The Bush administration proposed Monday phasing out a program that has pumped more than $2 billion into rural states hurt by logging cutbacks on federal land.
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Bush Budget Plan Would Slash Funding For Timber Counties (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Federal budget belt tightening is setting off alarm bells across the rural Northwest.
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Open house set at Timber Academy (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
The College Station school district's Timber Academy is hosting its spring open house Thursday. Students will make brief presentations about the program and serve refreshments they made. Door prizes will be awarded.
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Snowmass Mardi Gras to aid Katrina victims (Aspen Daily News)
Snowmass Village resident Debbie Shore remembers the day that Mardi Gras came to town. Shore, who was the manager of the Timber Mill (now The Cirque) in the early 1980s, said she recalls a group of people coming in for après ski, throwing beads and paying off the band to double their playtime.
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Plum Creek Timber ready to sign deal with Montana wildlife agency (Seattle Times)
Plum Creek Timber is expected to declare about 7,200 acres of wildlife habitat off-limits to development under an $8 million deal with the...
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Ravenna housing officer fired for timber sale (The Plain Dealer)
Ravenna Mayor Kevin Poland on Friday fired a city housing officer who sold $115,800 worth of timber off land owned by a nonprofit development agency.
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Govt's Master-Plan to Save Budongo Forest (AllAfrica.com)
Marino Abule and his fellow timber dealers in Hanga-Kidwera village in Masindi can now freely access timber from Budongo Forest Reserve. After giving up illegal logging, the forest authorities have rewarded them with part of the forest from which to fell trees.
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