2025

October 2025 Newsletter

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 […]


September 2025 Newsletter

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 […]


August 2025 Newsletter

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 […]


July 2025 Newsletter

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 […]


June 2025 Newsletter

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 […]


May 2025 Newsletter

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 […]


April 2025 Newsletter

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: […]


March 2025 Newsletter

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 […]


February 2025 Newsletter

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 […]


January 2025 Newsletter

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 […]