by Web Editor | Nov 15, 2017 | News, News/PR
While large fires have had dramatic impacts in some Pacific Northwest forests, only about 10 percent of the forested lands in the eastern Cascades have burned in the last 30 years, and young trees and dense forests are continuing to grow at a rate that outstrips...
by Web Editor | Apr 8, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Northwest Forest Plan, the icy truce that ended the 1990s timber wars, continues to unravel as two federal agencies look for new ways to manage Northwest forests. By late April, the Bureau of Land Management says it will release a new plan to manage 2.5 million...
by Web Editor | Feb 6, 2015 | News, News/PR
Snow blankets the landscape in north central Washington. What you can’t see is the scorched earth left from last summer’s Carlton Complex fire. Even through the snow, Susan Prichard, a fire ecologist for the University of Washington, can see the damage. She can also...
by Web Editor | Jan 6, 2014 | News, News/PR
In 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sold the rights to log a small grove of Douglas firs to a private company called Roseburg Forest Products. Roseburg bid more than $1 million for the trees, and planned to start logging this fall. Then the tree sitters showed...