Results for keyword: Logging
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Timber proposal undercuts Quincy Library plan
Members of California’s Quincy Library Group are fighting Forest Service plans for logging the Plumas and Lassen national forests.
by Jane Braxton Little, Feb 17, 2003 -
The message of trees marked in blue
Logging the few large trees still remaining in Western forests will not salvage the timber industry, help local towns or prevent future wildfires
by John McCarthy, Jan 20, 2003 -
Logging for water creates a buzz
In Colorado, a long-dead notion to clear-cut forests to increase water runoff is resurrected in a time of drought.
by Robyn Morrison, Dec 23, 2002 -
Forests could lose environmental review
Some congressional conservatives are trying to eliminate the analysis of forest-thinning projects that is required by the National Environmental Policy Act.
by Matt Jenkins, Oct 28, 2002 -
Forest protection under the knife
The Bush administration bows to pressure from the logging industry to revise the Clinton-era Northwest Forest Plan.
by Michael Milstein, Oct 14, 2002 -
A landslide suit for salmon
An Oregon environmental coalition is suing the state saying that 20-foot-wide logging buffers besides streams do little to prevent landslides in salmon habitat.
by Matt Rasmussen, Jul 08, 2002 -
Where there's smoke wood, there's less fire
Working under a special-use cutting permit from the Forest Service, Ed LaRose is harvesting alligator juniper to produce smoke-wood chips and a high profit.
by Janis Marston, May 27, 2002 -
Bush will edit NW Forest Plan
The Bush administration aims to overhaul the Clinton-bred forestry plan, and environmentalists pledge to oppose efforts to dilute it.
by Michael Milstein, Apr 29, 2002 -
Judge puts kibosh on logging plan
A federal judge rules that the Burn Area Recovery Plan, which would log Montana's Bitterroot National Forest, must be put on hold until the Forest Service gives the public a chance to appeal.
by Mark Matthews and Ray Ring, Jan 21, 2002 -
Sierra loggers get the ax
Cecil Wetsel and other mill operators and loggers in towns like El Dorado Hills, California, warn that the Framework's timber cutbacks may harm the forest as well as the local economy.
by Haley Nolde, Aug 27, 2001
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