National business award goes to Philomath-based Miller Timber
(World News USA)

Challenges in the woods are nothing new to Lee Miller. Back in the early 1980s after Miller received his degree in forestry from Oregon State University, the timber industry was beginning to feel serious impacts from a recession. In the coming years, the northern spotted owl controversy surfaced and led to limits on access. Miller survived those types of challenges and built a company that has received several prestigious honors. In fact, coming up on Sept. 28 in Perdido Beach, Alabama, Miller Timber will be in Alabama as he accepts the Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year award. The timber industry magazine established the national award in 1998. Such awards are nothing new for...