Forestry

Forestry

A new forest project, including logging, is coming to Hells Canyon

Adjacent to Eagle Cap Wilderness, nearly half of the Forest Service’s massive Morgan Nesbit project lies within the National Recreation Area

Jan 16, 2025
1
9 minutes

‘Legacy’ forests. ‘Restoration’ logging. The new jargon of conservation is awash in ambiguity. And politics

Among enviros, government agencies and logging interests, a war of words is raging over the future of our forests

Oct 10, 2024
8
15 minutes

Washington has few older forests left. Why does DNR keep logging them?

Conservationists want to stop the cutting of “legacy forests.” Logging concerns accuse them of moving the goal posts on “old trees.”

Sep 12, 2024
5
10 minutes

Federal committee pushes for major changes to forest management in Pac NW

Suggested revisions to the 30-year-old Northwest Forest Plan include a call for more cutting in northern spotted owl habitat

Jul 31, 2024
2
6 minutes

How the Gifford Pinchot National Forest got its name. And lost its soul

A new book, Forest Under Siege, presents a complex picture of one of the Pacific Northwest’s grandest treasures

May 16, 2024
3
10 minutes

Can ‘two-eyed seeing’ save our forests?

The Forest Service is becoming open to integrating Indigenous land management practices into its own work

Apr 24, 2024
1
4 minutes

Why no one knows exactly how much old-growth forest we have left

To use older trees to fight climate change, we need to know where they are. But new maps created by the Forest Service aren’t that detailed

Apr 18, 2024
4
12 minutes

Whitebark pines are in trouble. That means our water supply is, too

A nationwide effort to save the whitebark pine in underway. A big part of the story is happening in the Pacific Northwest

Apr 11, 2024
3
14 minutes
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