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Dias said the timber industry has suffered heavy economic losses. In the past two years, forest fires have charred more than 300,000 acres owned by California logging companies, he said.

Thirty years later, in the second law, the Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands Act of 1937, Congress directed the Interior Department to enforce sustainable harvesting ...

Some landowners decided to haul their timber to sawmills further away, but that cost more in shipping, an added expense. In Taylor County, more than 20% of the economy depended on the timber industry.