A bill renewing the federal payments that have sent billions of dollars to rural timber counties hurt by declining logging on national forests will be introduced in the U.S. Senate next week.
A Brookings couple has been jilted three times now. Less-than-reputable dealers sold them stuff that only smolders. A rise of complaints corresponds with what appears to be an increasing number of firewood dealers
Nicknamed "county payments," the timber program was supposed to assist counties shortchanged when national forests limited logging to protect the northern spotted owl and other endangered species.