A 24-year-old North Bend man was sentenced to 30 days in jail after being convicted of cutting Port Orford cedar boughs on Coos County forestland without a permit, the first such local case in ...

Increasingly rare in its southwest Oregon habitat, Port Orford cedar is one of the most commercially valuable woods in North America. "By closing these gates, we are controlling the spread of ...

A shimmering image of a Port Orford cedar rising above Southern Oregon's Vulcan Lake was one of five winners in 's annual outdoor photo contest. Brizz Meddings image of a Port Orford cedar at ...

In the past, I’d rarely recommend planting a Port Orford cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana). Although the Oregon natives are among the most attractive of conifers, they were so highly susceptible ...

The Port Orford cedar is back. Chamaecyparis lawsoniana-- a conifer known for its massive, muscular, multiple trunks -- graced many old gardens until a fungal disease that attacks the tree's roots ...

Crews will remove a large tree this month in Pioneer Park in downtown Puyallup due to safety concerns about its failing health, city officials said this week. “We know the Port Orford Cedar is ...

The ghost tree at Bandon Dunes' Old Macdonald—a large, stately Port Orford Cedar situated on the third hole that can be seen from most every hole on the course—was in danger of falling down ...

Her only other wish was to give away 95 seedlings harvested from a 50-foot-tall Port Orford cedar tree in her backyard. "It was just an idea," Bartell said during a recent visit. "But I had given ...

“We know the Port Orford Cedar is at least 50 years old,” city spokesperson Eric Johnson told The News Tribune in an email Thursday. It was planted by the city, he said, and today its roots ...