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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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Humboldt Redwood Company trumpets its environmental stewardship to the public. But not all of the public is pleased with the company's logging on Rainbow…
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The term "streamside buffers" sounds innocuous enough, but it's a subject of some tension in Oregon. The Oregon Department of Forestry proposes new rules…
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A federal appeals court Friday threw out a lower court ruling that required the Bureau of Land Management to increase timber sales in Southern…
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The basic science is deceptively simple: streams with trees around them tend to be cooler because of the shade.Streams with no trees warm up and become…
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Some of the fiercest arguments over proper federal forest management in Oregon focus on the "O & C lands," forests once granted to the Oregon & California…
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Did anybody LIKE the U.S. Forest Service around 1990? It was constantly in the middle of battles over proper forest management, the timber industry…
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Members of Congress from Oregon continue their efforts to increase timber cutting on the BLM lands that share half of timber income with Western Oregon…
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The most contentious portion of the debate over forest management concerns old-growth timber. Can the timber industry be healthy without cutting down…
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It's a rare thing when a timber mill adds another shift. It's far rarer that an environmental group applauds the addition. But Malheur Lumber is adding a…
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Removing trees can reduce fire danger, but the process presents its own issues. Like what happens to the land when the trees are removed. That was the…
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It has been said many times that journalists and legislators know they've probably done their jobs well when many people are angry with them. Oregon…
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The Bureau of Land Management calls the plan for the White Castle timber sale "variable retention harvest."Environmental groups prefer "clearcut." Welcome…