Newsletters

November 2023 Newsletter

  • Washington DC Update
    • Continuing Resolution
    • Forest Service Mature and Old Growth Threat Assessment
    • Senate ENR Markup
  • The AFRC Podcast: Montana’s Bruce and Chas Vincent- Adaptive Management, Grizzlies, and Overcoming Anti-Forestry Litigation
  • Northwest Forest Plan Advisory Committee Meets in Seattle, Amendment on the Horizon
  • AFRC and AOCC Ask the U.S. Supreme Court to Reconsider the Expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and the BLM’s Resource Management Plans
  • Pacific Legal Foundation and AFRC Submit an Amicus Brief in Support of Challenge to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Expansions
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Publishes Barred Owl Removal Strategy and Draft EIS
  • AFRC Moves to Intervene in Defense of the BLM’s N126 Late-Successional Reserve Landscape Scale Project
  • Federal Timber Purchaser Committee Meets in Erie, Pennsylvania
  • AFRC Hold Purchaser Meetings With Region 1 PODS
  • Election for Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Takes Shape
  • Tahoe Forest Products Joins AFRC
  • AFRC Holds 5th Emerging Leaders Program in Missoula

October 2023 Newsletter

  • Washington DC Update
    • Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations
    • Senate Energy & Natural Resources Hears Forestry Bills
  • The AFRC Podcast: Western Forest Products and Why Japan Loves PNW Wood
  • Forest Service Fiscal Year 2023 Wrap-up
  • BLM Fiscal Year 2023 Wrap-up
  • Umatilla National Forest: ‘Anthropogenic Landscapes’ Need Management
  • Colville National Forest Hits Reset On Several Projects
  • WA DNR Starts Second Quarter with a Burst of Volume

September 2023 Newsletter

  • Washington DC Update
    • Government Shutdown Looming
    • Forestry Bills Advance in U.S. House
    • Senator Diane Feinstein Passes
  • The AFRC Podcast: Forest Management at Work During 2023 Wildfire Season
  • Federal Wildfire Commission Releases Report
  • Forest Service Ramps Up Fuel Break Projects
  • Magistrate Judge Issues Findings & Recommendations in Challenge to the Eastside Screens Amendment
  • Washington Court of Appeals Dismisses Center for Responsible Forestry’s About Time Timber Sale Appeal
  • AFRC and Members Present to REAL Montana

August 2023 Newsletter

  • Washington DC Update: August Recess Provides Opportunities to Interact with Members, Congressional Staff
  • The AFRC Podcast: Separation of Powers, O&C Lands and the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
  • Fuel Reduction Supports Firefighters, Protects Communities During Oregon’s Flat Fire
  • Favorable Decision Upholding Three Projects on the Fremont-Winema National Forest
  • Forest Service awards first G-Z Service Contract
  • AFRC and AOCC Successfully Intervene to Defend the BLM’s Integrated Vegetation Management for Resilient Lands Project
  • AFRC Submits an Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of the Twisp Project
  • Washington State Board of Natural Resources 2023 Retreat
  • Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision Rises Again
  • Okanogan-Wenatchee Timber Program Ramping Up

July 2023 Newsletter

  • AFRC President Travis Joseph Appointed to NWFP Advisory Committee
  • The AFRC Podcast: U.S. Senator Steve Daines
  • Washington, DC Update
    • House Interior Appropriations
    • Federal wildland firefighter salaries
    • Manchin and Barrasso weigh in on Forest Service ANPR
  • AFRC Provides Blueprint for Climate Smart Forestry
  • D.C. Circuit Court Reverses Judge Leon’s Rulings Regarding the O&C Act’s Sustained-Yield Mandate
  • Hearing Held on Three Timber Stand and Wildlife Habitat Improvement CE Projects
  • Judge Jones Dismisses AFRC and City of Forks in a Challenge Against Washington DNR
  • AFRC Visits Western Montana Forests

June 2023 Newsletter

  • Washington, DC Update
    • AFRC in DC
    • Farm Bill/Forestry Reforms
    • BLM Conservation Rule
  • The AFRC Podcast: NEPA Reforms in Fiscal Responsibility Act
  • Washington Political Update
  • Ninth Circuit Victory! AFRC and MLA Successfully Defend the Flathead Revised Forest Plan
  • Hearing Scheduled in a Challenge to Timber Stand and Wildlife Habitat Improvement Projects on the Fremont-Winema National Forest
  • Judge Christensen Rules Against the Ripley Project on the Kootenai National Forest
  • Siuslaw National Forest Publishes Monitoring Report
  • Lolo National Forest Releases Plan Revision Draft Assessment
  • AFRC Meets With Region 1 POD Forests

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