The impacts of the Northwest Forest Plan, Eastside Screens, Sierra Nevada Framework and other landscape management plans that have been implemented during the past 20 years on federal timber lands have severely impacted the number of sawmills that remain in the west and those employed by the forest products industry.
Paul F. Ehinger and Associates has put together a report on the closures of mills and jobs lost in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana from 1990-2010.
