by Web Editor | Jul 26, 2017 | News, News/PR
A pioneering forest restoration management program has melded leading edge science and community consensus to protect a volatile and highly visible swath of Central Oregon’s public lands from the mounting threats of climate change and a catastrophic Central Oregon...
by Web Editor | Sep 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
Baker County Commissioner Bill Harvey says that the federal government needs to get to work on a plan for salvage logging to quickly cut the timber left standing by area wildfires. “What they’ve done in the past is they’ve not logged them and they are allowed to fall...
by Web Editor | Dec 5, 2014 | News, News/PR
A team of experts charged with accelerating the pace of Oregon forest restoration and heading off big fires in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon is proposing a 10-year effort to thin the underbrush in a 100,000-acre area. The proposal is a result of a decision a...
by Web Editor | Apr 18, 2014 | News, News/PR
A federal judge has shot down several environmentalist arguments against a 2,000-acre Oregon thinning project in the Mount Hood National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service found that thinning was necessary for forest health but the Bark environmental group filed a...
by Web Editor | Jan 10, 2014 | News, News/PR
A federal judge Wednesday upheld the U.S. Forest Service’s decision for an Oregon timber harvest project in the Umatilla National Forest. “The Forest Service properly analyzed the environmental impacts of the proposed project and ensured compliance with the numerous...