"There's 27 million trees in Oregon," says Ken Cummings, a chief forester for Boise, Idaho-based Boise, who oversees 300,000 acres of the company's timberlands. "This year the wildfires burned up about a million of them."
Just 40 miles from Cummings' Medford, Ore., office, the Timbered Rock fire, one of hundreds to rage across the Western states this summer, is mostly contained, though Cummings speculates it won't be completely out until winter. "We lost 9,100 acres," Cummings ...