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Justin Higginbottom/JPR NewsA logging company has canceled a proposed road within a Bureau of Land Management project in Josephine County. Activists had claimed that construction of the route threatened old-growth trees. -
Amelia TempletonGenerating money from logging state forestland has been hotly debated. Environmental groups are pushing for more habitat protection while counties want Oregon to meet legal obligation to maximize timber revenue for their benefit.
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Environmental groups and federal agencies seem to be locked in a never-ending fight over how to manage our forests. Can they work together? -
The slowing of the economy has by no means stopped all activity. The federal Bureau of Land Management still has a directive to sell timber from its lands鈥� -
The U.S. House passed HR 2936 in early November, the Resilient Federal Forests Act. It is designed to get more people working in the woods and more trees鈥� -
The weeks of smoke and fire over the summer did more than torch some trees. They also touched off a renewed debate about the best way to manage forests so鈥� -
It's not quite a trade war; not yet, anyway. But there are bad feelings between the United States and Canada over softwood lumber. The stuff used to build鈥� -
Pick a forest, and there's usually a story about people fighting over a timber sale or two. So it is in Oregon's Little Applegate Valley, where people鈥� -
There's just a bit more than a week (August 1) to comment on the Environmental Assessment for the Nedsbar Forest Management Project on BLM land in the鈥� -
Trees grow slowly, and it sometimes appears as if forest management plans take a similar amount of time to take shape. So it is with the Nedsbar Forest鈥� -
California鈥檚 drought is having a devastating effect on its forests. Aerial surveys around the state show more than 20 million dead trees so far. And the鈥� -
Northwest forest policy is once again heating up. Last week, federal officials presented their latest assessment of the Northwest Forest Plan, which鈥� -
JeffX, WEDNESDAY 6/3 @ 8: A place surrounded by fuel, where people struggle to keep their homes warm in the winter. That was the basic assessment that led鈥� -
The controversial "Second Show" timber sale will now get a second look from the federal Bureau of Land Management. BLM proposed the sale for an area鈥�
