by Web Editor | Aug 29, 2018 | News, News/PR
Faced with the worst summer fire season in 10 years, Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing broad new changes to California’s logging rules that would allow landowners to cut larger trees and build temporary roads without obtaining a permit as a way to thin more forests across...
by Web Editor | Aug 8, 2018 | News, News/PR
As California wildfires rage, politicians, timber companies and environmentalists are debating whether to thin overly dense forest lands that fuel the state’s deadly infernos. About one-third of California is covered by forests, most of it owned by the U.S....
by Web Editor | Feb 27, 2017 | News, News/PR
Environmental groups are pressuring Governor Kate Brown and the Oregon Board of Forestry to find new leadership on forestry issues and increase protections for coastal drinking water flowing through private forestland. That push accompanies legislative efforts to...
by Web Editor | Apr 13, 2016 | News, News/PR
New plans released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) would increase logging on the agency’s 2.5 million acres west of the Cascades summit — but don’t expect more chain saws to fire up anytime soon. As expected, the BLM plan ran into an immediate...
by Web Editor | Dec 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
A long time conservation activist is critical of the move to collaboration between the Washington timber industry, Forest Service, and environmental groups. In recent Years, The NorthEast Washington Forestry Coalition has brought together parties that used to be on...