High Cascade Forest LLC / WKO

The record has this facility taking fir, pine, softwood, and hemlock, and species decides more of what a load is worth than the gate it goes through. The Southern yellow pine guide covers how that wood is graded, the defects that pull it down a grade, and what it is normally cut for. The reference list adds a row on Douglas-fir and eastern hemlock - what buyers take each for, and the catch, though the source never narrows fir and hemlock to a single species.

It is the only facility the Washington sources list in Skamania County, which is worth knowing before you plan a haul: the next gate is in another county. The Skamania County section of the state page shows it standing alone, and all 81 Washington listings cover 25 counties.

Anybody searching for a sawmill near me needs more than one gate. If this one will not take your wood, the nearest other listings are SDS Lumber Company in Bingen, 17 miles away, Western Forest Products - Vancouver in Vancouver, 34 miles away and RSG Forest Products Inc in Kalama, 53 miles away. Distances are straight lines between the coordinates the sources published - not road miles, and not a statement that anybody is buying.

None of this says whether the gate is open or what the load would fetch - no agency document records that. A price comes out of a sale run properly: the landowner's guide to selling timber takes the steps in the order they happen, and sealed bidding puts one tract in front of several buyers at once instead of taking the first number offered.