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 | Sep 14, 2016 | News, News/PR
Amid rising numbers of at-risk wildlife in the South, the American Forest Foundation (AFF), a leading forest conservation organization that works with family forest owners, recently released a new report that reveals private and family landowners in the South offer a...
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 | Jun 16, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Legislature is poised to take another crack at allowing commercial logging on more than a million acres of New Jersey’s forests. The issue deeply split the state’s environmental community when it was approved in the previous legislative session, but it ended up...
by Web Editor | Apr 14, 2014 | News, News/PR
The state of Oregon will consider selling the whole Elliott State Forest, where legal battles over logging and protections for threatened species have reduced revenues for schools. Jim Paul, assistant director of the Department of State Lands, said Friday the forest...