Logging

The groups want more old-growth stands and a watershed included in the state’s landmark Western Forests Habitat Conservation Plan.

Water shortages in Oregon coastal cities could be prevented if clear-cutting forests around watersheds was eliminated, environmentalists say.

About one-third of forests across 80 drinking watersheds serving coastal cities have been cut during the last 20 years, NASA found.

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.

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.

Four private landowners say the work will improve forest health and safety, but the project has drawn concern from some local residents.

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.

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.

FWS claimed in 2019 that two logging projects by the Bureau of Land Management in southern Oregon would not harm the endangered northern spotted owl.

Native people and their allies are pushing back against plans by Cal Fire to log in California's largest state-owned forest.

Sides are debating whether the “greatest permanent value” of Oregon state forestlands lies exclusively in their ability to generate revenue.

The U.S. Forest Service had planned cutting trees on more than 400 miles of roads within the Willamette National Forest.