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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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Changes to the U.S. Forest Service’s national and Northwest forest plans should protect more old-growth trees from wildfire and climate change.
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The groups want more old-growth stands and a watershed included in the state’s landmark Western Forests Habitat Conservation Plan.
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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.
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America's oldest trees store vast amounts of carbon. Counting them is the first step to preserving them, says the Biden administration.
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The world took notice of the summer's fires in the Amazon region of Brazil. The tropical rainforests are often called "the Earth's lungs" for the oxygen…
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Science has a better grasp over time of how old-growth forest ecosystems work. But the study area is relatively small, given how much of the ancient…
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Any discussion of forestry in Oregon usually gets around to old growth forests. As you follow the debate over cutting or preserving them, you may wonder…
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The term "old growth" is one often used and perhaps less-often understood. Just big trees? Big trees and spotted owls? No and not quite are the answers;…
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Trees make hot days a little cooler. Well duh, you might say, everyone knows that shade from trees is good. But a newly-published study from Oregon State…
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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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Throw another log on the fire of debate over proper use of forests in the region. Scientists from here and Germany just released a study making the case…