Malheur Lumber announced last week it is closing for good, marking the fifth closure of a timber mill in Oregon this year. …The company employed 76 full and part time workers, according to the Blue Mountain Eagle, which first reported the closure. It was Grant County’s last remaining sawmill. …The mill was the fifth sawmill or timber operation in Oregon to close this year following the shuttering of: C&D Lumber Co. in Douglas County; Interfor’s Philomath sawmill shut down in February, Rosboro temporarily closed its Springfield mill; and Hampton Lumber closed its Banks mill and laid off 58 in January. The loss of rural timber mills is a problem for a number of reasons, including for thinning overstocked forests, said Nick Smith with the American Forest Resource Council. Just about every timber company that has closed referenced the inability to get the timber required to keep the business going.