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Oregon Department of Forestry/Flickr<br/>About one-third of forests across 80 drinking watersheds serving coastal cities have been cut during the last 20 years, NASA found. -
Oregon Department of ForestryA plan to protect threatened and endangered species in Oregon’s Western state forests by limiting some logging will move forward for now, despite a recent attempt to make last-minute changes that could have further delayed it.
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act. -
Four private landowners say the work will improve forest health and safety, but the project has drawn concern from some local residents.
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More than 40% of Oregon adults say the state’s forests are overlogged, but most also believe that harvesting timber is part of maintaining healthy forests, according to a recent survey.
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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.
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FWS claimed in 2019 that two logging projects by the Bureau of Land Management in southern Oregon would not harm the endangered northern spotted owl.
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Native people and their allies are pushing back against plans by Cal Fire to log in California's largest state-owned forest.
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Sides are debating whether the “greatest permanent value” of Oregon state forestlands lies exclusively in their ability to generate revenue.
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The U.S. Forest Service had planned cutting trees on more than 400 miles of roads within the Willamette National Forest.
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The Biden administration is proposing to undo a Trump rule that slashed millions of acres of critical habitat protections for the northern spotted owl.
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Legislators cut taxes for the owners of Oregon’s private forests, which helped fund university forest scientists. Now taxpayers will pick up the tab.
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The report’s conclusions run counter to the criticisms that too many healthy trees are being identified for removal along roadsides where last year’s wildfires burned.
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Oregon is still removing hazardous trees along roads and properties that burned in last year’s wildfires, but the operation faces allegations of mismanagement and excessive tree-cutting. In response, lawmakers, expert foresters and critics are taking a closer look at the burned trees marked for removal.
