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Aiken Ford Lumber Co
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Whittier Wood Products
Distance: 57.4 Mi3787 W 1st Ave
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Willamette Valley Company
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Ifr Good Fish
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Timber Products Company
Distance: 58.2 Mi305 South 4th Street
97477 Springfield
Douglas Timber Operators
- 3000 Stewart Pkwy Ste 208
- Roseburg, Oregon
- 97470
- Phone: (541) 672-3833
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Description
In early pursuit of its purpose the corporation purchased shares in LandRad, a radio users group, on February 28, 1969. LandRad was formed on June 4, 1964 to provide radio communications for timber operators in the vicinity of Douglas County in southwestern Oregon. Douglas Timber Operators owned and operated one of the many radio frequencies in the radio system located atop Lane Mountain. Shortly thereafter the corporation expanded its operations and hired its first full time director in September of 1976. Increased federal regulation of National Forest System lands precipitated the move. The National Forest Management Act, passed in October of 1976, addressed certain key points and issues in national forest management policy and administration, but it left definition of the most specific provisions to the discretion of the United States Forest Service. Several major forestry issues were left unresolved by the Act including clear cutting and nondeclining even flow...