The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan was designed to quell the decades-long “timber wars” between loggers and environments. The plan placed 24 million acres of federal forests in Oregon, Washington and ...
U.S. Forest Service staff hold a public field trip in the Telephone Gap project area in 2021. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service After years of debate, the U.S. Forest Service issued a draft ...
An update to a decades-old Pacific Northwest forest management plan could permit significantly more logging in the name of fighting extreme wildfires and climate change. The Northwest Forest Plan’s ...