Newsletters

May 2023 Newsletter

  • Washington, DC Update
    • Fiscal Responsibility Act
    • Senate Energy and Natural Resources Markup
    • House Natural Resources Committee Hearings and Markup
  • The AFRC Podcast: BLM Conservation Rule
  • Judge Christensen Holds that the Forest Service May Continue to Use Aerial Fire Retardants to Fight Wildfires
  • Ninth Circuit Holds Oral Argument in the Challenge to the Revised Flathead National Forest Plan
  • Siuslaw National Forest Utilizes Restoration CE to Expedite Treatment
  • Oral Argument Held in the Challenge to the Eastside Screens Amendment
  • Favorable Ninth Circuit Ruling for Hanna Flats Project
  • Anti-Forestry Groups Intervene in AFRC’s Challenge to DNR’s Carbon Project
  • Repairs at R-Y Mill Ongoing
  • Shannon Reny Joins AFRC as a Summer Law Clerk

April 2023 Newsletter

  • AFRC Wraps up 2023 Annual Meeting, “Telling Your Story”
  • The AFRC Podcast: Roseburg’s Historic Investment in Southwest Oregon
  • Washington DC Update
  • AFRC Washington Legislative Recap
  • The Ninth Circuit’s Divided Panel Upholds the Expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
  • BLM Proposes New Conservation Rule
  • BLM’s Integrated Vegetation Management Programmatic and Late Mungers Project Challenged
  • District Court Granted a Preliminary Injunction on the Knotty Pine Project
  • District Court Judge Allows Plaintiffs’ Challenge to the Siuslaw HLB Project to Proceed
  • Okanogan-Wenatchee Timber Outputs Ramping Up
  • Cougar Rock Restoration on the Deschutes National Forest

March 2023 Newsletter

  • AFRC Annual Meeting: Bipartisan and Focused on Solutions. Register Today!
  • The AFRC Podcast: Rep. Cliff Bentz – Forestry, Water and Wildfire
  • Washington DC Update
  • Washington Legislative Update
  • Coalition Seeks to Defend the Forest Service’s Use of Aerial Fire Retardant
  • AFRC Legal Win! Judge McShane Upholds the BLM’s 2020 Rule Eliminating the Protest Process
  • Ninth Circuit Win! Court Upholds the South Fork Stillaguamish Vegetation Management Project
  • Lolo Plan Revision Officially Underway
  • AFRC Seeks to Defend Three Thinning Projects Authorized under the Timber Stand Improvement Categorical Exclusion
  • Jake Blaufuss Joins AFRC as Northern California Field Coordinator

February 2023 Newsletter

  • Washington DC Update
  • AFRC Annual Meeting – Register and Book Your Room at Skamania Lodge
  • The AFRC Podcast: Todd Payne and Sierra Pacific Industries expansion in Oregon
  • Washington Legislative Update
  • Forest Service Announces FY23 Timber Targets
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Proposal to List the California Spotted Owl under the Endangered Species Act
  • AFRC Defends the Eastside Screens Amendment and 15 Scientists File a Letter Disputing Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Scientific Controversy
  • AFRC Defends the South Fork Stillaguamish Vegetation Project Before the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Considers Petitions to Delist Certain Grizzly Bear Populations
  • Colville and Nez-Clear to Receive Additional Wildfire Funding

January 2023 Newsletter

  • Registration for AFRC’s Annual Meeting is Now Open!
  • The AFRC Podcast: Montana DNRC’s Amanda Kaster and Success with Cross-Boundary Forestry
  • Washington DC Update
  • Biden Administration Announces New Priority Landscapes to Reduce Wildfire Risk in West
  • CEQ Issues Interim NEPA Guidance on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Washington Legislative Update
  • Washington DNR Continues Work on Eastside Sustainable Harvest Calculation
  • Washington Study Highlights Climate Benefits of Forest Management, Wood Products
  • Unfavorable Decision on Remand of the End of the World Challenge
  • North Cascade Conservation Council Challenges Revised Twisp Project
  • AFRC Meets With Western Montana POD Forests
  • AFRC Welcomes New Members
  • AFRC is Hiring! Northern California Field Coordinator
  • Kade Weathers Joins AFRC as Legal Extern

December 2022 Newsletter

  • Save the Date: AFRC’s Annual Meeting, April 11-13
  • Washington DC Update
  • The AFRC Podcast: Duane Vaagen and “A to Z”
  • NWFP Monitoring Report: Wildfires Leading Cause of Old Growth Forest Loss
  • Flat Country Project Decision Withdrawn
  • District Court Once Again Upholds the Tecuya Ridge Shaded Fuelbreak Project on the Los Padres National Forest
  • Industry Coalition Files Motion to Intervene in Challenge to Fisher ESA Listings
  • Injunction Lifted in the Fleecer Project Challenge
  • Lolo Begins Forest Plan Revision
  • Janicki Elected to Washington Board of Natural Resources

November 2022 Newsletter

  • Washington DC Update
  • The AFRC Podcast: Heath Heikkila, 2022 Mid-Terms, What to Expect in New Congress
  • Federal Timber Purchasers Committee Convenes for Fall Meeting
  • D.C. Circuit Court Holds Oral Argument on AFRC’s O&C Act Cases
  • Judge Tigar Changes Course and Remands, Without Vacating, 2019 ESA Rules
  • Okanogan-Wenatchee Timber Program Positioned for Consistency
  • BLM Releases Instructional Memorandum on Habitat Connectivity
  • AFRC and Counties Seek Full Environmental Review of Washington’s ‘Carbon Project’
  • DNR Timber Sale Program Update
  • New Regulations May Require Federal Contractors to Report Their GHG Emissions, Climate Risk

October 2022 Newsletter

  • Vote: The 2022 Elections Will be Critical to Industry’s Future
  • The AFRC Podcast: Travis Joseph discusses the Pacific Northwest’s timber supply squeeze
  • Fiscal Year 2022 Wrap-up: Pacific Northwest (USFS Region 6 and BLM)
  • Fiscal Year 2022 Wrap-up: Region 1
  • Fiscal Year 2022 Wrap-up: Region 5
  • Fiscal Year 2022 Wrap-up: Region 4
  • AFRC Hosts Regional Membership and Partners Meeting in Reno
  • DNR Barrels Ahead on Carbon Scheme as Questions and Concerns Grow
  • AFRC Intervenes in Eastside Screens Amendment Litigation
  • Magistrate Judge Issues Findings and Recommendations on the Ripley Project
  • NMFS Releases Oregon Coho Recovery Status Review
  • FWS Withdraws “Non-Warranted” Finding for the Red Tree Vole
  • Oregon Department of Forestry Renews GNA Master Agreement

September 2022 Newsletter

  • Washington DC Update
    • Senate hearing on forestry, public lands bills
    • Congress Passes Continuing Resolution
  • Two Beaverhead-Deerlodge Projects Moving Forward
  • BLM Timber Salvage Wrap-up
  • The AFRC Podcast: CalForests’ Matt Dias- A comprehensive approach to fighting wildfires
  • Anti-Forestry Groups Settle Archie Creek Salvage Project
  • Update on DNR Carbon Project, Agency Opens Brief Public Comment Period
  • Cottonwood Threatens Lawsuit Over Lynx, Climate Change
  • Environmental Groups Challenge FWS’s Listing Decision for West Coast Fisher
  • AFRC Welcomes New Member Bennett Lumber Products Inc.

August 2022 Newsletter

  • AFRC Submits Comments on Federal Old Growth and Mature Forests
  • The AFRC Podcast: FFRC’s Bill Imbergamo- Defining “Old Growth” when our forests are burning
  • Oregon’s Rum Creek Fire Reveals Risks of New Wilderness Proposals
  • Washington DC Update
    • Inflation Reduction Act
    • Washington Primary Election Results
  • McMorris Rogers and Westerman Visit Northeast Washington
  • DTO Report: Build-up of Dead Trees Increases Future Fire Risk
  • New Litigation “Watch List”
  • Chief Grants ESD’s to Region 1 Salvage Projects
  • Tami Kerr Named Region 1 Director of Forest Management