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CLT explained
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a prefabricated, solid wood panel
used in residential and industrial construction.
George Plaven/Capital Press
Timm Locke, director of forest products for the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, explains the benefits of mass timber at the
World Forestry Center in Portland.
O REGON SEEKS
TO BECOME U.S.
CLT consists of several layers
of boards arranged in
alternating directions.
The layers are bonded together
with industrial adhesives and
pressed together to form a solid,
straight rectangular panel.
Courtesy USDA; Structurlam
Common applications include long
spans in walls, floors and roofs.
Sources: Oregon State University;
APA-The Engineered Wood Association
MASS TIMBER HUB
Alan Kenaga/Capital Press
Innovative new uses for the state’s timber
resources include construction of high-rise buildings
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
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Carbon 12, an eight-story condominium building in
Portland, Ore., is made with mass timber.
ORTLAND, Ore. — Timm Locke relishes a chance to drive around Portland and showcase the latest commercial build-
ings made with mass timber, a construction material that uses wood beams and panels instead of concrete and steel.
First stop: Albina Yard, a four-story office building that opened in 2016 featuring cross-laminated timber panels from
D.R. Johnson, a lumber company south of Roseburg, Ore.
dustry hub, kick-starting rural economies that have tradition-
Every piece of cross-laminated timber — or CLT for short
ally relied on forest products. On Aug. 1, Oregon became the
— is prefabricated, designed for a specific part of the build-
ing, said Locke, director of forest products at the Oregon For-
first state to approve language in its building codes allowing
est Resources Institute. That means buildings go up faster,
for wood-framed buildings up to 18 stories tall.
with fewer workers.
Albina Yard was the first building to use Oregon-made CLT
Wood is also environmentally superior to steel and con-
as a structural element. Other examples of mass timber con-
crete, Locke said, because it sequesters carbon and takes less
struction in Portland include Carbon 12, an eight-story con-
dominium building on Northeast Fremont Street. Catty-cor-
energy to produce.
ner to it across the street is One North, an 85,540-square-foot
“There are so many benefits, it doesn’t matter which one
business complex.
you choose to start with,” Locke said.
First developed in Europe, mass timber is now catching on
Turn to TIMBER, Page 10
in the U.S., and Oregon is working to position itself as the in-
Oregon’s ‘extreme
drought’ triples in size
Severe drought also
spreads in Washington
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Drought intensified in Oregon and
Washington over the previous week, the
U.S. Drought Monitor reported.
The percentage of Oregon gripped in
“extreme drought” more than tripled to
nearly 22 percent despite occasional rain
in isolated areas. In Washington, the per-
centage of the state in “severe drought”
nearly tripled to 17 percent from 6.
A drier than normal winter and a warm
and dry summer have caused problems
in much of the West, according to the
Drought Monitor.
“This was most notable in Oregon,
where the combination of a poor winter
snowpack and a hot and dry summer have
produced widespread poor pasture and
range conditions and very low stream
Six calves attacked by
new Washington wolfpack
Familiar spot
for depredations;
preventive measures
detailed by state
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Don Jenkins/Capital Press
Cattle graze this summer in a pasture
in southwest Washington. June through
August was warm and dry in Washington
and Oregon, leading to widespread drought
conditions in both states.
flows and livestock ponds, and required
water hauling, supplemental hay and
delayed forest harvesting, along with re-
duced livestock herds,” according to the
statement.
The Drought Monitor is a partnership
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Wolf attacks on cattle were
mounting Wednesday on a grazing
allotment in the Colville National
Forest in northeast Washington as
the state Department of Fish and
Wildlife gave notice it would cull
a pack that has three or four adult
wolves and likely two pups.
Fish and Wildlife issued the
one-day notice shortly after noon.
Unless blocked by a court, the de-
partment said it planned to start the
operation the following afternoon.
Cattleman Len McIrvin of
the Diamond M ranch estimated
wolves have killed 30 to 40 calves
so far and that losses will total 70
to 80 calves by the time the herd
is off the allotment. He said he
expects the ranch also will suffer
losses with low pregnancy rates
and underweight cattle.
“It’s not a sustainable situa-
tion,” he said. “It’s a wreck.”
The attacks are occurring in an
area referred to by Fish and Wild-
life as the Old Profanity Peak pack
territory. The department killed
seven wolves in that pack in 2016
and one wolf in the neighbor-
ing Sherman pack in 2017. Both
packs no longer officially exist,
but wolves remain in the area.
The department has confirmed
the pack has killed one calf and
injured five others since Sept. 4.
The most recent attack was con-
firmed Tuesday. Fish and Wildlife
policy calls for the department to
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