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The U.S. Forest Service could close its Pacific Northwest headquarters in Portland, which oversees Oregon and Washington national forests, as part of restructuring plan. -
Roman Battaglia/JPR NewsAn environmental advocate in Southern Oregon said a new policy excluding the public from federal timber auctions hurts accountability and transparency.
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Rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule would open up 58 million acres of national forest land across the country to logging and development. -
Officials say they are prepared for potentially volatile federal policies and funding under the Trump administration. -
A number of environmental groups filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against federal land managers for a timber sale in old-growth forest north of Grants Pass. -
U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies under proposed changes to a sweeping forest management plan that’s been in place for three decades. -
Two controversial timber sales in Southern Oregon’s Applegate Valley were postponed for a third time by the federal Bureau of Land Management on Monday. -
A major forest management project in Southern Oregon has been approved using a new model from the federal Bureau of Land Management.
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The Bureau of Land Management has agreed to reverse a Trump-era rule that allowed the agency to log large areas of forests after a wildfire without first doing an environmental review. -
Environmental groups and federal agencies seem to be locked in a never-ending fight over how to manage our forests. Can they work together? -
Lawsuit aims to protect threatened species, but fire scientist says management delays could be worseFour environmental groups are threatening to sue federal agencies over a new forest treatment plan. The activists say the Bureau of Land Management isn’t doing enough to protect two threatened species in Southern Oregon. -
A new forest management plan from the Bureau of Land Management in Medford will help speed up proposed projects. But local activists fear the plan could hurt forests and endangered species. -
Decision-making processes at the Bureau of Land Management have for years been assisted by Regional Advisory Councils and Committees (RACs). The decisions… -
No federal agency is responsible for managing as much land as the Bureau of Land Management. And no BLM district in the country has more people working…
