by Web Editor | Sep 8, 2014 | News, News/PR
At least one of the two conservation groups suing over the Red Mountain Flume-Chessman Reservoir project, a planned Montana timber harvest, plans to proceed with a lawsuit despite a federal judge saying the groups are unlikely to succeed on the merits of their case...
by Web Editor | Sep 5, 2014 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s state Board of Forestry is working on balancing a healthy timber industry with healthy salmon runs. It would be the first change to the riparian protections of the Oregon Forest Practices Act since 1994. The question was raised by a 2011 study that...
by Web Editor | Sep 3, 2014 | News, News/PR
The United States Fish & Wildlife Service will make a final decision by next April about whether the northern long-eared bat deserves to be listed as an endangered species – it has already said it believes it does – and some environmentalists appear ready to use...
by Web Editor | Aug 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
A coalition of conservation groups filed suit Friday challenging the U.S. Forest Service decision to approve the Big Thorne timber sale on Prince of Wales Island. The conservation groups, Alaska Wilderness League, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and...
by Web Editor | Aug 25, 2014 | News, News/PR
At one point in time, longleaf pine forests in the United States stretched 90 million acres, from Virginia to Texas–but fire suppression, agriculture and development combined to devastate this critical ecosystem. For decades, longleaf pines, which can reach 100 feet...
by Web Editor | Aug 22, 2014 | News, News/PR
High on a ridgeline in the Stanislaus National Forest, Chris Schow is driving through miles after mile of dead, blackened trees. “Obviously, before the Rim Fire came through, these trees would have been green, alive,” he says. As the U.S. Forest...
