Newsletters
- Washington, DC Update
- Government shutdown
- Hearing on Public Lands Bills Postponed
- SPEED Act
- Greg Hibbard joins AFRC as Staff Attorney
- Forest Service Fiscal Year Wrap-up
- BLM End-of-Year Wrap Up
- AFRC and Calforests Submit Joint Comments Urging Rescission of Roadless Rule
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 49: Amanda Kaster & Montana’s Historic Stewardship Agreement
- Fremont-Winema Continues to Leverage G-Z Contracting
- AFRC Presents at REAL Montana
- Poised to Produce: Plumas National Forest’s Push for Resilience
- Washington, DC Update
- Congress returns to consider spending, forest policy
- Trump appointees await confirmation
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 48: Fuel Treatments: Smart Investments, Healthy Forests
- Executive Orders Spur Growth of Landscape-Scale Forest Management
- USDA Takes Next Steps to Rescind the 2021 Roadless Rule
- AFRC Submits Comments on USDA Reorganization Plan
- Upthegrove Announces Proposal to Set aside 77,000 Acres
- AFRC Defends the Forest Service’s Restoration Categorical Exclusion in Federal Court
- Ninth Circuit Upholds the BLM’s Big Weekly Project
- Fish and Wildlife Service Determines Fisher Not Warranted for Listing Under ESA
- Clackamas Stewardship Partners Tour Mt. Hood National Forest
- Forest Service Seeks Input on Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision
- Washington, DC Update
- Appropriations
- Trump Appointees
- Reconciliation Bill Implementation
- Permitting reform
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 47: Rescinding the Roadless Rule- Myth vs. Reality
- USDA, Forest Service Announce Major Reorganization, Opens Comment Period
- AFRC Comments on USDA/DOI Revise NEPA Regulations
- Judge DeSoto Denies Preliminary Injunction Request Against the Round Star Vegetation Management Project
- State of Montana and Forest Service Sign Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Colville Outlines Solid 5-Year Timber Sale Program
- The Pause Continues – When will WA DNR Bring Timber Sales to Auction?
- Forest Practices Board Advances Costly Rule Impacting Washington’s Working Forests
- Washington, DC Update: Senate Passes Reconciliation Bill
- AFRC Leads National Coalition Letter on Timber Priorities in Reconciliation Bill
- USDA Moves to Rescind the Roadless Rule
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 46: John Culclasure, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation
- Trump Administration Unveils Executive Order Aiming to Reshape Federal Wildfire Policy
- Wood Duck Project Win: Judge Christensen Denies Preliminary Injunction Request
- AFRC Visits Region 1 to Preview Developing Projects
- AFRC, Freres Wood Highlight Forest Management Crisis in National Fox News Story
- DNR Timber Sale Program – FY25 Wrap Up and Look Ahead at FY26
- Washington, DC Update
- Budget Reconciliation
- FY26 Budget Request
- USDA announces $200 million for expanded timber production
- Tribal Co-Management Gets Bipartisan Support
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 45: U.S. Senator Steve Daines
- Supreme Court Clarifies Courts’ Role in NEPA in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado
- Federal Agencies Rescind the Definition of “Harm” under the Endangered Species Act
- Forest Service Releases National Active Forest Management Strategy
- Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Adopt Multiple Categorical Exclusions
- Mitigating Wildfire Growth Utilizing Strategic Landscape Features: Using all Tools in the Toolbox
- Parties Settle Challenge to BLM’s N126 Late-Successional Reserve Landscape Scale Project
- AFRC Granted Intervention in Challenge to the Round Star Project
- DNR Timber Sales Litigation Update
- AFRC Presents at Sun Mountain Partnership Meeting, Tours Wood Duck Project
- AFRC Welcomes Taylor Harwood, New Summer Law Clerk
- AFRC Concludes 2025 Annual Meeting, “The Time is Now”
- Washington, DC Update
- Reconciliation
- Senate Fix our Forests Act
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 44: Travis Joseph on Annual Meeting, Trump EO’s and more
- USDA Secretary Issues Memorandum on Timber Production
- AFRC Leads Coalition in Challenge to FWS’s Northern Spotted Owl Critical Habitat Designation
- Services Release Proposed Rule Removing ‘Harm’ from the Definition of Take
- Ninth Circuit Upholds Condition-based Management for the Twisp Project
- AFRC Welcomes New Forest Supervisors
- AFRC Meets with Region 1 Forests
- Washington Legislature’s Approved Budget Impacts State Trust Lands, Cuts Funding for Forest Health
- Register Now: AFRC Annual Meeting Welcomes Keynote Speaker USFS Associate Chief Chris French
- Washington, DC Update
- AFRC submits comments on President Trump’s Executive Orders on timber and lumber production
- Senate Hearing on Fix Our Forests Act
- AFRC makes trip to DC.
- Settlement Reached in Challenge to the Pintler Face Project
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 43: Congressman Cliff Bentz
- Big Win From Magistrate Judge DeSoto in the Challenge to the South Plateau Project
- Injunctions Dissolved in the Challenge to End of the World and Hungry Ridge Projects
- Judge Aiken Issues Two Decisions Involving Challenges to BLM Projects
- Integrated Vegetation Management for Resilient Lands Project
- N126 Late-Successional Reserve Landscape Scale Project
- Survey Aims to Identify Oregon Forestry Workforce Needs
- Dollar Project Shrinks But Moves Forward
- President Trump Signs Historic Executive Orders on U.S. Timber Production, U.S. Lumber
- Register Now: AFRC Annual Meeting
- Washington, DC Update
- Tom Schultz appointed USFS Chief
- Kathleen Sgamma appointed BLM Director
- Forestry Legislation
- CEQ Withdraws NEPA Regulations
- Federal Workforce Cuts
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 41: Forestry for the Future, Part 2, Blake Manley
- Northwest Forest Plan Amendment Comment Period Closing March 17
- CEQ Releases Interim Final Rule Revising its Implementing NEPA Regulations
- Recent Oral Arguments and Opinions in the Ninth Circuit
- Twisp Restoration Project and condition-based management
- Black Ram Project and unauthorized road use
- Helena-Lewis & Clark Revised 2021 Forest Plan
- Favorable Ruling from the Supreme Court Limiting Recovery of Attorney Fees
- Murphy Company Hosts Rogue River-Siskiyou Staff for Mill Tour
- Tonata-Trout Project Needs Implementation
- Understanding Wood Products: AFRC Partners with Industry Expert at Malheur National Forest Meeting
- Plaintiff Required to Pay a Bond if They Want to Halt the Freedom Timber Sale
- In Memoriam: Glen Duysen
- Washington, DC Update
- Trump Transition
- House Passes Fix our Forests Act
- Reconciliation
- Registration Open: AFRC Annual Meeting at Skamania Lodge, April 22-24
- Fish & Wildlife Service Retains Threatened Status for Grizzly Bear
- Video: Why it’s Time to Delist the Grizzly Bear
- Parties Settle in the Challenge to the Bulldog Restoration Project
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 41: Forestry for the Future, Part 1 Dr. Beth Dodson, University of Montana
- Okanogan-Wenatchee Restoration Struggles Continue
- BLM Proposes Implementation of Barred Owl Removal Strategy
- Washington CPL Upthegrove “Pauses” DNR Timber Sales
- AFRC in the News
- Washington, DC Update
- Key Committee Assignments Announced
- Save the Date: AFRC Annual Meeting Set for April 22-24, 2025
- The AFRC Podcast: The AFRC Podcast: New government, opportunities for forestry and wood products
- Northwest Forest Plan Committee Meets in Bellingham, Washington
- AFRC Successfully Intervenes in the Challenge to BLM’s Blue and Gold Project
- AFRC Successfully Intervenes in the Challenge to the Forest Service’s Youngs Rock Rigdon Project
- Fish and Wildlife Service Revises Lynx Critical Habitat
- AFRC Welcomes Steve Brink to Team AFRC
- AFRC Attends R-1 Contractor, BLM, and MLA Meetings
- AFRC in the News