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Forestry

Climate change is killing this PNW tree. In Europe they want to plant it

Western redcedars are declining at home, but they’re climate change winners in Central Europe’s changing climate

Jan 15, 2026
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10-minute read

Climate change is killing this PNW tree. In Europe they want to plant it

Western redcedars are declining at home, but they’re climate change

Jan 15, 2026
10-minute read

Walla Walla wants to know: Does forest ‘thinning’ work?

About 12,000 acres near the town’s water supply will be logged in the name of safety. Critics say that’s just an excuse to cut down trees

Dec 11, 2025
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9-minute read

Walla Walla wants to know: Does forest ‘thinning’ work?

About 12,000 acres near the town’s water supply will be

Dec 11, 2025
9-minute read

Divide and conquer: Trump’s plan to stop loggers and environmentalists from talking

Administration seeks to eliminate forest collaborative programs intended to ease tensions between conservationists, timber industry, USFS

Aug 7, 2025
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16-minute read

Divide and conquer: Trump’s plan to stop loggers and environmentalists from talking

Administration seeks to eliminate forest collaborative programs intended to ease

Aug 7, 2025
16-minute read

A fuel break project near Mount Hood could remove old-growth, critics say

Lack of hi-res data is at the core of a challenge to a logging project conservationists say could cause unnecessary damage

Feb 13, 2025
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12-minute read

A fuel break project near Mount Hood could remove old-growth, critics say

Lack of hi-res data is at the core of a

Feb 13, 2025
12-minute read

EXCLUSIVE: The Forest Service is using the threat of wildfires to meet timber targets

The agency has sought to minimize environmental oversight and used authorities critics say incentivize the logging of older trees

Feb 6, 2025
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24-minute read

EXCLUSIVE: The Forest Service is using the threat of wildfires to meet timber targets

The agency has sought to minimize environmental oversight and used

Feb 6, 2025
24-minute read

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
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10-minute read

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

Adjacent to Eagle Cap Wilderness, nearly half of the Forest

Jan 16, 2025
10-minute read

‘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
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16-minute read

‘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

Oct 10, 2024
16-minute read

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
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10-minute read

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

Conservationists want to stop the cutting of “legacy forests.” Logging

Sep 12, 2024
10-minute read

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
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7-minute read

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

Suggested revisions to the 30-year-old Northwest Forest Plan include a

Jul 31, 2024
7-minute read

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
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11-minute read

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

A new book, Forest Under Siege, presents a complex picture

May 16, 2024
11-minute read

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
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4-minute read

Can ‘two-eyed seeing’ save our forests?

The Forest Service is becoming open to integrating Indigenous land

Apr 24, 2024
4-minute read

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
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12-minute read

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

To use older trees to fight climate change, we need

Apr 18, 2024
12-minute read

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