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Courtesy of U.S. Forest ServiceThe Northwest Forest Plan has long protected vulnerable species like spotted owls in federal forests along the West Coast. -
Photo courtesy of the U.S. Forest ServiceThe Fix Our Forests Act passed out of a Senate committee Tuesday, and now heads to a full vote
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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. -
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. -
The Center for Biological Diversity alleges the Trump administration has failed to make “expeditious progress” on species awaiting protection under the Endangered Species Act. -
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. -
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. -
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… -
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… -
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… -
A federal appeals court Friday threw out a lower court ruling that required the Bureau of Land Management to increase timber sales in Southern… -
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… -
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…
