by Web Editor | Jan 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
Environmentalists want to stop an Oregon logging project they claim is a “test case” for clear-cutting trees on the verge of becoming “old growth” stands. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved logging on 187 acres near Myrtle Creek, Ore., as part of the “White...
by Web Editor | Aug 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
A coalition of conservation groups filed suit Friday challenging the U.S. Forest Service decision to approve the Big Thorne timber sale on Prince of Wales Island. The conservation groups, Alaska Wilderness League, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and...
by Web Editor | Oct 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
Can the Alaska logging industry survive while only logging second-growth forests? An Oregon research group says it can. And it could happen sooner than many expect. An organization called the Geos Institute just released a study based on new Forest Service data. It...
by Web Editor | Jan 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
Two conservation groups are challenging the proposed D-Bug logging sale on Umpqua National Forest lands near Crater Lake National Park. Oregon Wild and Cascadia Wildlands filed a notice of intent in late December challenging the D-Bug timber sale old-growth logging...