The governor announced Friday a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow Josephine County’s last sawmill to reopen.
The governor announced Friday a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow a Josephine County sawmill to reopen.
Southern Oregon’s withered timber industry got a boost Friday when Gov. John Kitzhaber announced the reopening of Rough & Ready Lumber Co. in Cave Junction.
The governor has announced a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow Josephine County’s last sawmill to reopen by converting to cutting small logs from forest thinning and ecological restoration projects.
The governor announced Friday a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow Josephine County’s last sawmill to reopen.
Creative financing and government support enabled the Phillippi’s to reopen the mill, which has been closed for nearly a year now and was the last sawmill in Josephine County.
Rough & Ready sawmill will reopen nearly a year after it closed, adding back dozens of jobs to a pocket of rural Oregon where one in 10 are out of work.
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USDA announced new national initiative to teach children where food comes from and create opportunities for local farmers to provide harvest to schools
A move is afoot within the federal fishery management system to increase the protection of cod and pollock from the majority of the groundfishing fleet
