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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

Repeal of roadless rule could mean return of timber wars

Seventeen years ago, Idaho opted out of the national program. Could its foresight provide a template for compromise?

Nov 6, 2025
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12-minute read

Repeal of roadless rule could mean return of timber wars

Seventeen years ago, Idaho opted out of the national program.

Nov 6, 2025
12-minute read

Wash. says it will save 77,000 acres from logging. Enviros question the details

Don’t applaud yet. Critics say the big plan amounts to “smoke and mirrors” and is “misleading”

Oct 30, 2025
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9-minute read

Wash. says it will save 77,000 acres from logging. Enviros question the details

Don’t applaud yet. Critics say the big plan amounts to

Oct 30, 2025
9-minute read

Tree-killing beetles are in Portland. Is Washington next?

After destroying millions of trees in the Midwest and East Coast, the emerald ash borer appears poised to cross the Columbia River

Oct 9, 2025
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10-minute read

Tree-killing beetles are in Portland. Is Washington next?

After destroying millions of trees in the Midwest and East

Oct 9, 2025
10-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

EXCLUSIVE: Forest Service plans to replace tree painting with broad guidelines for loggers

The federal agency change will give timber companies more control over deciding which trees get cut down and which get saved

Jun 12, 2025
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EXCLUSIVE: Forest Service plans to replace tree painting with broad guidelines for loggers

The federal agency change will give timber companies more control

Jun 12, 2025
10-minute read

How long will the Olympic Peninsula tree-sit go on?

A standoff between protestors, police and the State of Washington is playing out 75 feet off the ground.

May 20, 2025
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5-minute read

How long will the Olympic Peninsula tree-sit go on?

A standoff between protestors, police and the State of Washington

May 20, 2025
5-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

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

What is ‘assisted migration’ and what are the risks?

As heat and drought continue to kill trees, humans are stepping in to help shift growing ranges. Not everyone agrees on what type of help is needed

Dec 28, 2023
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19-minute read

What is ‘assisted migration’ and what are the risks?

As heat and drought continue to kill trees, humans are

Dec 28, 2023
19-minute read

Extreme heat represents a new threat to trees and plants in the Pac NW

A growing number of scientists are investigating what they say is an overlooked threat to the world’s plants

Dec 21, 2023
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Extreme heat represents a new threat to trees and plants in the Pac NW

A growing number of scientists are investigating what they say

Dec 21, 2023
7-minute read

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