Timber law has fallout beyond its intentions

By Keith Chu / The Bulletin
April 12, 2009

WASHINGTON — In the late 1990s, Prineville’s Ochoco Lumber Co. found out the hard way about illegal logging, said President John Shelk.

Ochoco bought a stretch of Russian forest to provide lumber to its Lithuanian mill. But before Ochoco could cut the trees, timber thieves....

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