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The Jewell School District in the Clatsop State Forest predicts it could lose nearly $1 million in revenue if a plan to scale back logging is implemented.
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Oregon is on the verge of major changes to the rules that govern how state, federal and privately owned forestlands are logged, and how vulnerable species are protected.
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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.
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The move comes in response to criticism that the state's hazard tree program is being mismanaged.
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Senate Bill 335 aims to reduce conflict of interests among Oregon’s State Board of Forestry members and the timber industry.
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Oregon lawmakers are considering two bills that aim to prevent the kind of catastrophic wildfires that tore through the state last year.
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Special rules for logging after wildfire allow more trees to be cut faster with fewer restrictions.