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The Jewell School District in the Clatsop State Forest predicts it could lose nearly $1 million in revenue if a plan to scale back logging is implemented.
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Oregon is on the verge of major changes to the rules that govern how state, federal and privately owned forestlands are logged, and how vulnerable species are protected.
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Oregon forestry officials are moving ahead with a controversial plan that will reduce logging on state lands west of the Cascades.
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Three sawmills have closed in Oregon within less than two months, prompting several counties’ leaders to grill state forestry officials about a plan that would limit logging in western Oregon forests.
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Changes to the U.S. Forest Service’s national and Northwest forest plans should protect more old-growth trees from wildfire and climate change.
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The Oregon Department of Forestry released long-awaited revenue projections for 14 counties if a landmark conservation plan is adopted.
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The groups want more old-growth stands and a watershed included in the state’s landmark Western Forests Habitat Conservation Plan.
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Water shortages in Oregon coastal cities could be prevented if clear-cutting forests around watersheds was eliminated, environmentalists say.
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About one-third of forests across 80 drinking watersheds serving coastal cities have been cut during the last 20 years, NASA found.
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A plan to protect threatened and endangered species in Oregon’s Western state forests by limiting some logging will move forward for now, despite a recent attempt to make last-minute changes that could have further delayed it.
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act.
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Four private landowners say the work will improve forest health and safety, but the project has drawn concern from some local residents.
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More than 40% of Oregon adults say the state’s forests are overlogged, but most also believe that harvesting timber is part of maintaining healthy forests, according to a recent survey.
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The Bureau of Land Management has agreed to reverse a Trump-era rule that allowed the agency to log large areas of forests after a wildfire without first doing an environmental review.