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Old-growth trees provide vital wildlife habitat, help forest ecosystems and store massive amounts of carbon. But some activists in Southern Oregon claim the Bureau of Land Management is allowing the logging of old-growth trees despite recent calls by the Biden administration for protection.
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A coalition of conservation groups and activists has blocked a logging site and filed a legal complaint over another area with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
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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.
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Lobbyists claim the timber industry is "up against the ropes." Here's what they're not saying: Lumber prices are at record highs and profits are soaring.
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The decision to slash protections beyond an agency's recommended levels was pushed by the Trump administration in its final days.
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For decades, corporate timber benefited from tax cuts that devastated local government budgets. Lawmakers want change and have filed dozens of bills, making this one of Oregon’s most consequential sessions for forest policy.
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Several Western Democratic lawmakers want an immediate review of the Trump administration decision to remove millions of acres of the northern spotted owl’s critical habitat.
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A coalition of environmental groups sent a letter to Oregon’s congressional delegation this week urging them to stop proposed post-fire logging on federal lands that burned during the 2020 wildfire season.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the northern spotted owl deserves an upgrade to “endangered” status. The agency passed on its chance to do so and is now cutting its protected habitat by several acres.
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The Center for Biological Diversity alleges the Trump administration has failed to make “expeditious progress” on species awaiting protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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Rural communities in Oregon are being saddled with millions of dollars in costs to provide their citizens with clean, safe drinking water because the state isn’t protecting their watersheds from logging-related contamination.
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The new year will bring changes to the areas forest managers can spray pesticides in Oregon and how far away timber must be harvested from fish-bearing streams in the Siskiyou region.
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The days when public lands provided huge trees to the timber industry are largely over in our part of the world. But the Bureau of Land Management is…