Newsletters
- 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
- Washington, DC Update
- Lame Duck Session
- Committee leadership changes
- Trump Transition
- D.C. Circuit Court Holds that CEQ Has No Legal Authority to Issue NEPA Regulations
- The AFRC Podcast: Dr. Nate Anderson, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station on forestry and wood products as climate solutions
- Forest Service Moving Forward to Amend Northwest Forest Plan
- Malheur National Forest Takes Action Following 120,000-acre Falls Fire
- AFRC Visits Pintler, Burnt Gold Projects
- Washington Board of Natural Resources Approves Mature Forest Sales
- AFRC’s Motion to Intervene Granted in the Challenge to the Central/West Slope Project
- Proposed Sáttítla National Monument Raises Wildfire Risk Concerns in Northern California
- The AFRC Podcast: Episode 38- Forester/Author Ethan Tapper on How to Love a Forest
- Tenth Circuit Hears Arguments in Challenges to Two National Monuments
- Federal Timber Purchaser Committee Meets in Bend Oregon
- Western Oregon BLM 2024 End-of-Year Summary
- Lassen National Forest Expands Use of Integrated Resource Stewardship Contracts for Hazard Tree Mitigation
- BLM Announces Federal Advisory Committee for its Public Lands Rule
- AFRC Visits Eastern Washington Forests
- Washington Department of Natural Resources Continues Work on Eastern Washington Sustainable Harvest Calculation
- Washington DC Update
- Fix Our Forests Act
- Continuing Resolution
- Upcoming Lame Duck Session
- Forest Service Budget Woes
- The AFRC Podcast: Episode 37- Understanding the impacts of NEPA litigation
- Northwest Forest Plan Amendment DEIS Now Expected in November
- AFRC Submits Comments on National Old-Growth Amendment DEIS
- Ninth Circuit Upholds Three Forest Health Projects on the Fremont-Winema National Forest
- The Gold Butterfly Saga—Why Changes to NEPA are Needed
- Forest Service Fiscal Year 2024 Wrap-up
- BLM Achieves Minimum ASQ for FY 2024
- AFRC Files Amicus Curiae Brief in Seminal Tree Fall Liability Case in Washington
- Washington Court of Appeals Denies Request to Stay Freedom Timber Sale
- Nick Smith Receives 2024 W.D. Hagenstein Communicator Award
- Northwest Forest Plan Amendment DEIS Pushed to October
- Washington Primary Election Results
- The AFRC Podcast: Episode 36- Explaining the Barred Owl Strategy
- Updates on BLM’s Public Lands Rule—Committee, Litigation, and Guidance
- AFRC Files Amicus Brief in Support of the Twisp Project and Condition-Based Management
- Lonerock Fire on Umatilla National Forest Destroys Thousands of Acres of Forests, Wildlife Habitat, Riparian Areas
- Kootenai Program Getting Back on Track
- Middle Fork Ranger District Pre-Solicitation Meeting for Upcoming Roadside Hazard Removal Project
- Washington DC Update
- Appropriations
- Permitting legislation
- 6th Emerging Leaders Program, Sept 12-13, Springfield
- The AFRC Podcast: Travis Joseph on finding consensus to modernize the Northwest Forest Plan
- Report: Pacific Northwest Anti-Forestry Groups Dominate NEPA Litigation Nationwide
- U.S. Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Deference and Redefines When the Statute of Limitations to Bring Actions under the Administrative Procedures Act Begins
- Fish and Wildlife Service Finalizes Barred Owl Removal Strategy
- Favorable Decision on the Pintler Face Project Permits Harvest Activities to Proceed
- Favorable Ruling on the Freedom Timber Sale Amidst Sweeping Challenges to DNR’s Timber Program
- AFRC and National Coalition Challenge BLM’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule
- AFRC Visits Eastern Washington Forests
- Washington DC Update
- Fix our Forests Act
- Wyden’s River Democracy Act
- Congressional reaction to Biden Administration Old Growth Rule
- 6th Emerging Leaders Program, Sept 12-13, Springfield
- The AFRC Podcast: Blending Indigenous knowledge and western science in forest management
- Forest Service Releases Draft EIS for Old Growth Amendments
- U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case to Properly Interpret the Scope of NEPA
- Montana Court Hears Argument on Alliance for the Wild Rockies’ Motion for a Preliminary Injunction on the Pintler Face Project
- Judge Christensen Remands the Horsefly Project Back to the Forest Service
- AFRC Successfully Intervenes in Two Separate Challenges to DNR Timber Sales
- Carrot Timber Sale
- Freedom Timber Sale
- AFRC Visits Key Region 1 Projects During Summer Field Trips
- In Memoriam: Karl Bialkowsky
- Washington DC Update
- Farm Bill
- Committee Hearings
- 6th Emerging Leaders Program, Sept 12-13, Springfield
- The AFRC Podcast: U.S. Forest Service Invests in Wood Innovation
- Research Assesses Constraints on Mechanical Treatment to Reduce Wildfire Threat
- The Council on Environmental Quality Finalizes NEPA Phase 2 Revisions
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Finalizes Critical Habitat for Coastal Marten
- Magistrate Judge Clarke Rules in Favor of KS Wild Plaintiffs’ Challenge to BLM’s Integrated Vegetation Management for Resilient Lands Project
- Montana Magistrate Judge Grants Sun Mountain Lumber and Iron Pine’s Intervention Request in the Challenge to the Pintler Face Project
- Milestones Reached on the Okanogan-Wenatchee Forest
- Middlefork Ranger District Hosts Youngs Rock Rigdon Field Trip
- AFRC’s Legal Team Presents at Sun Mountain’s Partnership Meeting
- AFRC Welcomes Two Summer Law Clerks
- AFRC Wraps up 2024 Annual Meeting, “The Future of Public Forest Management”
- Washington DC Update
- Forest Service Budget Hearings
- House Natural Resources Hearing on Westerman Forestry Legislation
- BLM Conservation Rule
- Mature and Old Growth
- The AFRC Podcast: NWTF and Tackling the Nation’s Wildfire Crisis
- BLM Finalizes Conservation and Land Health Rule
- EPA Report Echoes Concerns with Aging Forests
- King County Judge’s Decision on Wishbone Timber Sale Takes Problematic View on Climate Change Impacts
- Thurston County Judge Rules Against AFRC’s Challenge to DNR’s Carbon Project
- AFRC Members Featured in Rick Dancer Truth About Timber Video Series
- FWS, NMFS Issue Final Rules Amending the Endangered Species Act’s Implementing Regulations
- AFRC Meets With Region 1 PODS
- AFRC and Mountain States Legal Foundation Partner to Combat NEPA Overreach in the U.S. Supreme Court
- Washington DC Update
- Federal government avoids shutdown
- Congressional hearings
- Congress Weighs in on Mature and Old Growth Rule
- The AFRC Podcast: Why Timber Supply Matters in Public Lands Management
- Mid-year Federal Timber Program Update
- The U.S. Supreme Court Denies AFRC’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari on its O&C Act Lands Case
- The Ninth Circuit Rules in Favor of the Tecuya Ridge Project
- Medford BLM Moves Ahead on Plan to Treat Douglas-fir Mortality in Southwest Oregon
- Washington Legislative Recap
- AFRC Defends the BLM’s N126 Late-Successional Reserve Landscape Scale Project
- Blues Plan Revision Team Releases Draft Assessment
- Two Plants Announce Closures in Montana