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Jordan Gale/Oregon Capital ChronicleThe judge ruled that the Jewell School District failed to make the case that the Oregon Department of Forestry was violating a funding law by reducing logging. -
Courtesy of Northwest Interagency Coordination CenterRepublicans are backing a proposal to scale back environmental regulations to 鈥渢hin鈥� forests while Democrats and environmentalists want to fund community preparedness.
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The conservation group that had hoped to buy and preserve the property is now facing a much higher price at auction. -
The federal Bureau of Land Management plans to auction off almost 500 acres of forestland on Thursday to log dead or dying trees. But, one conservationist says many of the trees are actually healthy. -
The Jewell School District in Clatsop County plans to 鈥渂et the farm鈥� to overturn a habitat conservation plan that threatens the district鈥檚 timber funding. -
Environmental groups celebrated the decision, calling it a win for protecting vulnerable species on private land. -
Protestors have moved into another Bureau of Land Management project area in Southern Oregon after claiming their tree-sitting prevented construction of a logging road in April. -
Kotek had scrapped plans earlier this month to nominate two men to the Oregon Forestry Board. -
Old-growth trees provide vital wildlife habitat, help forest ecosystems and store massive amounts of carbon. But some activists in Southern Oregon claim the Bureau of Land Management is allowing the logging of old-growth trees despite recent calls by the Biden administration for protection. -
A coalition of conservation groups and activists has blocked a logging site and filed a legal complaint over another area with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. -
The Jewell School District in the Clatsop State Forest predicts it could lose nearly $1 million in revenue if a plan to scale back logging is implemented. -
Oregon is on the verge of major changes to the rules that govern how state, federal and privately owned forestlands are logged, and how vulnerable species are protected. -
Oregon forestry officials are moving ahead with a controversial plan that will reduce logging on state lands west of the Cascades. -
Three sawmills have closed in Oregon within less than two months, prompting several counties鈥� leaders to grill state forestry officials about a plan that would limit logging in western Oregon forests.
