by Web Editor | Nov 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
Oregon Expands Streamside No-Logging Zones The Oregon Board of Forestry voted in early November to double the no-logging buffer zone along small- and medium-sized streams in western Oregon in response to a lawsuit that state forestry regulations don’t do enough...
by Web Editor | Mar 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected increased regulation of logging road runoff, ruling on Oregon-based lawsuits that the timber industry warned would cause regulatory chaos. In a 7-1 decision, the court reversed a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling...
by Web Editor | Feb 27, 2013 | News, News/PR
A logging proposal just outside Crater Lake National Park has reignited the Northwest’s logging wars in miniature, pitting timber groups anxious for jobs against environmentalists who have gathered 10,000 comments in opposition. The U.S. Forest Service’s...
by Web Editor | Dec 3, 2012 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to switch gears on more than 30 years of regulating the muddy water running off logging roads into rivers. At issue: Should the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency keep considering it the same as water running off a farm...
