Scott Melcher and Melcher Logging Co. have been doing fuels-reduction work for years in Central Oregon, but their efforts have suddenly brought them national attention.
That’s been particularly true in recent months, after Melcher Logging got a $1.4 million slice of American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funds to expand a project they were already working on east of Sisters.
Melcher Logging has been thinning overgrown forests in the area since 2002, when Melcher, who is…