by Web Editor | Nov 7, 2014 | News, News/PR
When a tornado ripped through some areas of Westmoreland County in June 2012, John Wenzel, executive director at the Powdermill Nature Reserve, saw opportunity within destruction. When it comes to salvage logging after windstorms, ecologists debate whether it is...
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 | Jan 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
Two conservation groups are challenging the proposed D-Bug logging sale on Umpqua National Forest lands near Crater Lake National Park. Oregon Wild and Cascadia Wildlands filed a notice of intent in late December challenging the D-Bug timber sale old-growth logging...
by Web Editor | Aug 19, 2011 | News
The U.S. Forest Service is offering to renegotiate timber sale contracts in an effort to save sawmills in the Rocky Mountain region that have been hit hard by bark beetle infestations, the recession and financially unviable agreements. The agency announced on August 4...
