Populated areas are seeing a large increase in wildfire, despite suppression efforts.
Forests
Posted inMay 11, 2015: The Wetland Wars
Walking the damp upper corners of America
This mysterious Oregon forest awakens hope in a local writer.
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Congress considers treating wildfire like other natural disasters
The proposal to use emergency funding faces a key obstacle: Sen. Murkowski.
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For rural Oregonians, protections from herbicides come up short
Aerial spray regs remain the West Coast’s weakest after the death of a key law.
Posted inApril 27, 2015: Lost frontier
The Latest: Feds consider uplisting northern spotted owl to endangered
Only about 4,000 owls remain, despite logging cutbacks.
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Rural counties to lose the most from defunded lands programs
What happens to local budgets when Congress stops these federal payments.
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Forest Service sticks up for coal mining on roadless lands
The agency will calculate climate impacts of mine expansions in western Colorado.
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Will the Northwest Forest Plan come undone?
The Forest Service and BLM embark on revising the iconic plan and may allow more logging.
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Don’t blame bark beetles for fire risk
A new study suggests hot dry weather, not beetles, make forests go up in smoke.
Posted inMarch 2, 2015: Unite and Conquer
Latest: New pesticide regulations for Oregon timber companies
Companies must now give officials at least a week’s notice before spraying.
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New hope for beetle-killed landscapes
Can native forest fungi combat the West’s bark beetle epidemic?
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Rural counties dealing with loss of fed dollars
Faced with federal subsidy cuts, counties are chopping services and clamoring for logging money
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The Forest Service bets on second-growth logging in Alaska
But can timber still keep island communities in the Tongass afloat?
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Montana mycologist fights fungus with fungus
To save whitebark pines, apply slippery jack.
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Landscape-scale conservation gains ground
The Nature Conservancy just announced its largest Washington land purchase to date.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
Dear Forest Service: Today’s John Muir shoots video
Let people take all the images they want in wilderness areas.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
Rocky Mountain sawmills rebound
But the industry says it needs more timber.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
Timberland herbicide spraying sickens a community
Companies deposit thousands of pounds of herbicides each year on Oregon forests.
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How the hot and dry West is killing Rocky Mountain forests
A new report summarizes how climate change is accelerating tree death from fires, bark beetles and drought
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
Lost in the woods
How the Forest Service is botching its biggest restoration project.