http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 12. http://www.hcn.org/wotr/monster-wildfires-have-become-the-new-normal Wildfires cannot be entirely prevented by logging or anything else, but small-scale prescribed burns can help make them less destructive. No publisher Roy Keene and Tim Hermach firefighting Western wildfires Biscuit Fire Bush Healthy Forests Initiative Forest Service Wallow Fire forest fires prescribed burns salvage logging 2011-06-21T18:34:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/315/16079 A group of scientists at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry publish a controversial study saying salvage logging may actually slow forest recovery No publisher Sarah Gilman Logging Salvage logging Oregon State University College of Forestry Dan Donato Science magazine Biscuit Fire Siskiyou Mountains Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest John Sessions Donald Kennedy Tom Hinckley Dominick DellaSala World Wildlife Fund fores 2010-02-05T08:56:47Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/288/15156 A judge rules against a plan to salvage-log old-growth wood from the Timbered Rock Fire in Oregon, and the ruling could affect other proposed fire sales in old-growth forests No publisher Paul Fattig Old Growth Salvage logging old growth forest fires Timbered Rock Fire Biscuit Fire timber sales Judge Ann Aiken BLM Medford District Chris West American Forest Resource Council George Sexton Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center Lance Nimmo Northwest Forest 2010-02-05T09:22:10Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/279/14900 BLM raises mining claim fees; scientists sign report criticizing Bush administration’s misuse of science; Biscuit Fire salvage logging plan criticized by timber industry; and the wrong waste has been going to WIPP No publisher Laura Paskus BLM mining claim fees Bureau of Land Management Union of Concerned Scientists Bush administration Bush and science Biscuit Fire salvage logging timber sales American Forest Resource Council Tom Partin WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant radio 2010-02-05T09:58:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/277/14824 The large-scale salvage logging planned for the Biscuit Fire area in southern Oregon and Northern California marks the first time logging has been approved on land previously protected by the Roadless Rule No publisher Dan Wilcock Fires Logging Salvage logging Biscuit Fire Roadless Rule timber sales Heritage Forest Campaign roadless areas ECONorthwest Taxpayers for Common Sense forest fires wildfires 2010-02-05T09:57:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/265/14453 The proposed salvage logging of the Biscuit Fire area in Oregon’s Siskiyou Forest is one of the largest timber sales in history, and critics say it’s not only ecologically dangerous, but undermines the Roadless Rule No publisher Kathie Durbin Logging Biscuit Fire Siskiyou National Forest Oregon salvage logging timber sales Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation Rule John Sessions forest fires wildfires 2010-02-05T09:55:41Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14197 Despite the warnings of scientists who say it’s a bad idea, the Bush administration is eager to log trees burned by the Biscuit Fire in Oregon’s Siskiyou National Forest No publisher Kathie Durbin Fire Biscuit Fire salvage logging forest fires Kalmiopsis Wilderness Siskiyou National Forest Douglas County Oregon 2010-02-05T10:13:24Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/308/15847 With the Forest Service’s Biscuit Fire salvage logging program acknowledged to be a failure, Oregon Reps. Greg Walden and Gordon Smith want to speed up future post-fire logging No publisher Emma Brown Jerry Franklin Logging timber sales Congress George Sexton Southern Oregon Timber Industries Biscuit Fire Dave Schott snags Forest Service logging Gordon Smith Greg Walden standing dead Politics post-fire salvage logging Associ Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center timber 2010-11-16T17:32:15Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15782 Forest Service accidentally cuts a designated botanical area in southwest Oregon; California, New Mexico and Oregon sue Bush administration over repeal of Roadless Rule; Utah won’t let group test Great Salt Lake fish for mercury; BLM admits grazing regs need more work No publisher Jodi Peterson Forest Service Biscuit Fire designated botanical area Brewer spruce Siskiyou Project logging Fiddler sale salvage logging Roadless Area Conservation Rule Mark Rey forest protection Great Salt Lake Great Salt Lakekeeper mercury fish water po 2012-03-05T22:49:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/347/17031 Dan Donato, whose controversial study on salvage logging sparked an academic firestorm, talks about his research and all it provoked No publisher Erin Halcomb fire wildfires John Logging Sessions environmental issues science Dan Donato Biscuit Fire forestry forest fires Oregon State ecology research conifer re-growth politics salvage logging University 2010-08-06T19:52:03Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15501 Despite angry environmentalists, rotting timber, and unenthusiastic logging companies, the Bush administration is determined to push logging on roadless land burned by the Biscuit Fire in southwestern Oregon No publisher Kathie Durbin Fires Logging Biscuit Fire salvage logging Bush environmental policy Tom Lavagnino Kalmiopsis Wilderness protesters Fiddler timber sale Mike’s Gulch timber sale Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest Clinton roadless rule Siskiyou Mountains forest fires Siski 2012-03-30T19:01:35Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/337/16765 If we truly want to "salvage" our forests – and the rest of our environment – we need to think beyond salvage logging, and acknowledge that the value of dead trees cannot be measured in board-feet alone No publisher Pepper Trail Government Accounting Office thinning Logging log wildlife habitat microhabitats tree-cutting insect infestation fires growth forest Biscuit Fire forest health damaged trees forest snags old burned Salvage logging hazard-tree removal timber 2010-09-02T22:41:45Z News Article