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HCN Logging NewsA rough road to repairAbandoned logging routes wash $1.3 billion of trouble into Northwestern watersheds -- March 27, 2008 Cutting trees to save the forestChris Kelly’s environmental group, The Conservation Fund, is carefully logging its own redwood trees in order to save forests and salmon in Northern California. -- September 17, 2007 Weathering the academic stormDan Donato, whose controversial study on salvage logging sparked an academic firestorm, talks about his research and all it provoked -- May 28, 2007 The decline of logging is now killing librariesNow that logging no longer provides enough money to support Oregon’s libraries, Pepper Trail says it’s up to citizens to decide to keep their state’s bookshelves filled and accessible. -- April 9, 2007 Of salvage logging and salvationIf 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 -- December 25, 2006 Of salvage logging and salvationThe writer finds salvage logging to be anything but salvation for a forest -- December 4, 2006 Biomass: What to do with all that woodMark Sardella’s nonprofit group Local Energy is determined to heat local communities with biomass energy, created by burning logging slash and millwaste from New Mexican forests -- October 30, 2006 Gutsy science wins the dayThe writer praises an Oregon graduate student who defied the conventional wisdom on salvage logging — and counts the cost to those who tried to censor his work -- September 4, 2006 As states ponder protection, roadless forests unravelWestern states debate the best way to look after their roadless areas even as logging, drilling and mining move in on formerly protected lands -- July 24, 2006 The Latest BounceCalifornia Rep. Richard Pombo wins Republican primary against Pete McCloskey; Washington’s "Forest and Fish Report" protects logging companies that inadvertently harm salmon; Wyoming’s Martin’s Cove tones down the religious stuff -- June 26, 2006 Cooking up a whopper on federal land in OregonThe writer says logging companies and the Forest Service have targeted the last of the big old trees -- June 26, 2006 The Latest BounceEPA abandons attempt to regulate hydraulic fracturing; BLM briefly cuts forestry school funding and Republican Rep. Greg Walden grills logging critic Dan Donato; California regulator tries to stop ecological crash in San Francisco Bay-Delta -- March 20, 2006 Spotted owl or red herring?Although logging has declined drastically in the Pacific Northwest, it’s not necessarily the fault of the Endangered Species Act or the northern spotted owl. -- March 20, 2006 BLM rolls back environmental reviewThe BLM adds 11 new categorical exclusions to the National Environmental Policy Act that will make it easier for salvage logging, grazing and energy exploration -- February 20, 2006 Oregon’s academic food fight in the cafeteria of ideasThe writer says a study of salvage logging by graduate students has shaken up both the conventional wisdom and Oregon State University -- February 13, 2006 Study questions value of post-fire loggingA group of scientists at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry publish a controversial study saying salvage logging may actually slow forest recovery -- February 6, 2006 Judge orders litigating enviros to pony upA federal judge orders three environmental groups to post a $100,000 bond while their appeal of a logging project goes forward -- February 6, 2006 'Green' seal of approval considered for national forestsThe Forest Service is considering "green" certification for timber produced on the national forests, but environmentalists fear it's a form of greenwashing that will wrongly legitimize public-land logging -- December 12, 2005 Salvage logging speeds upWith 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 -- October 17, 2005 The Latest BounceU.S. Geological Survey gets Yucca Mountain research funding cut; logging halted on Giant Sequoia National Monument; New Mexican politicians fight proposal to drill in Valle Vidal -- October 3, 2005 Click for more articles on Logging.
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