On June 26, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. handed down a key victory for Southwest Oregon communities that are entitled to sustained yield timber harvests from Oregon and California Railroad Grant Lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
June 2013
June 2013 Newsletter
House Votes Down Farm Bill Helium, County Payments, Goods Neighbors & Wilderness Committee Hears Forest Management Issues DNR MM Strategy Comments Due Ninth Circuit Affirms Mudflow Supreme Court Vacates Sierra Framework Ninth Circuit Halts Medford BLM Sales Groups Challenge Thinning BLM Publishes Purpose & Need Statement Wilderness, River & Energy Bills Pass Senate Healthy Forest […]
New Oregon Wilderness Designations Disappoint Forest Industry
A group of forest products industry associations today expressed their disappointment that new Wilderness legislation from Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley has cleared a key Senate Committee without a meaningful legislative resolution to the paralysis affecting federal forest management and rural communities in Western Oregon.