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The Trump administration is looking to roll back a law that places tougher restrictions on logging in remote portions of ...
The Elliott State Forest in Oregon. (By Oregon Department of Forestry, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News). (CN) — In a landmark decision, a Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday upheld a ...
Rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule would open up 58 million acres of national forest land across the country to logging and ...
Forest Service’s approval of old-growth tree logging in Oregon likely illegal, judge finds U.S. Forest Service rules once protected large old-growth trees from timber projects. Recent court cases, ...
The Trump administration is overturning a decades-old ban on logging large trees in six national forests across Eastern Oregon and southeast Washington.
MEDFORD, Ore. -- Gov. John Kitzhaber and two other top state officials moved Oregon closer to a break from past forest policy Tuesday when they voted for increased logging on the Elliott State ...
The project is the first commercial logging project on U.S. Forest Service land to avoid an appeal since 1996, The Bend Bulletin reported.
The proposed Western Oregon Habitat Conservation plan would protect endangered species in 640,000 acres of states forestland while providing more certainty for logging in those areas.
The Oregon Board of Forestry recently passed a new revised management plan that will increase logging in forests across Oregon. Conservationists and environmentalists oppose this new plan and have ...
Private log exports from Oregon, though down from recent peaks, still exceed current federal timber harvests. In 2013, log exports were nearly triple Oregon’s federal harvest levels!
Logging has continued on Oregon's public lands amid COVID-19 limits on recreation, even as some protest the approval of new timber sales.