Environmental groups are seeking added protections for large trees as the U.S. Forest Service plans $41.3 million worth of selective logging, mowing and prescribed burning.
To address extensively changed forest successional circumstances, 20th- and 21st-century climatic shifts, and quickly shifting wildfire regimes in the present age, scientists suggest landscape-level adaptation.
Not long ago, we asked our members and supporters to speak up for Eastern Oregon’s old-growth forests. As expected, Trump's Forest Service didn’t listen. Now the Biden administration is defending a grievous mistake.
Worse yet, in a recent email many of our members received, the Forest Service claimed they had strengthened protections. It’s simply not true, and we want to set the record straight.
An environmental lawsuit seeks to halt a 40,000-acre forest treatment project in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest for allegedly evading federal limits on harvesting large trees.
Readers respond: Reverse Eastside Screens changes
Updated Feb 21, 2021;
After the Trump administration in January cut millions of acres of habitat protections for the northern spotted owl, it is heartening to see Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen Ron Wyden and Rep. Earl Blumenauer pushing for an investigation of this decision (“Last-minute removal of spotted owl protections by Trump administration deserves investigation, NW Democrats say,” Feb. 2). There is another pressing environmental issue in Oregon that isn’t getting as much publicity but deserves our immediate attention and that affects an area almost three times as large as the land at play in the spotted owl decision: the Trump administration’s amendments to the Eastside Screens rule.