Newsletters
- Washington, DC Update
- Farm Bill
- Fix our Forests Act, Permitting Reform
- Montana’s Daines and Zinke Announce Retirements
- National Industry Leaders Launch the Federal Timber Purchasers Coalition (FTPC)
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 54: OSU’s John Bailey talks climate, carbon and sustainable forestry
- Forest Service Proposes Rule to Amend the Objection Process
- BLM Proposes O&C Plan Revisions as Bentz Introduces O&C Renewal Act
- AFRC Files Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of the BLM’s Siuslaw HLB Landscape Plan
- AFRC and AOCC Intervene in Challenge to Last Chance Project
- Two National Forests Plan to Treat High Priority Travel Corridors
- Rogue River-Siskiyou NF Plans Hazard Tree Removal in Moon Complex Fire
- Ochoco NF Introduces Two Vegetation Management Projects
- Washington Court of Appeals’ Ruling Requires Change in Future DNR SEPA Analyses
- Washington Legislative Update
- WA DNR’s Decisions — and the Lack of Decisions — Have Consequences
- Registration is Open: AFRC’s 2026 Annual Meeting, Skamania Lodge, April 7-9
- Washington, DC Update
- Appropriations
- Farm Bill?
- Boren sworn in at USDA
- Forest Service Proposes Nationwide Post Fire EA
- Oregon District Court Sets Aside the Forest Service’s Timber Stand Improvement CE
- Forest Service Signs Decision on the Ellis Project
- The Partner Paradigm- Timber Contracting in the Golden State
- Idaho Panhandle Partner Meeting
- Stilly Revisited Timber Sale Upheld in Superior Court
- AFRC Washington Legislative Update
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 53: Washington State Trust Lands at a Crossroads
- Can Washington State DNR Turn the Timber Sale Program Around?
- Honoring the Life and Legacy of Paul Beck
- Washington, DC Update
- Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations
- Permitting Reforms, SPEED Act
- Forestry Reforms, Fix our Forests Act
- Secure Rural Schools
- Passing of Congressman Doug LaMalfa
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 52: A Conversation with U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz
- AFRC President Urges Congress to Reform EAJA and End Subsidized Anti-Forestry Litigation
- Forest Service Wraps up 1st Quarter of FY2026
- USDA Publishes Summary of Public Feedback on Agency Reorganization
- Montana District Court Judge Molloy Vacates the South Plateau Project
- December Storms Cause Widespread Damage Across Region 1 National Forests
- Science We’re Reading: How Active Management After Drought Shapes Forest Recovery
- Washington State DNR Timber Sale Update: First Half FY2026 Analysis
- Washington, DC Update
- Shutdown ends
- SPEED Act
- Senate ENR hearings
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 51: Sara Ghafouri and the Legal Frontlines of Forestry
- Virginia District Court Dismisses Plaintiffs’ Challenge to the Forest Service’s 2020 NEPA Regulations
- New Endangered Species Act Regulations Proposed
- Siuslaw National Forest and Oregon Department of Forestry Begin New Partnership
- AFRC Meets With Region 1 National Forests
- Montana District Court Lifts Injunction on the East Reservoir Project
- AFRC Intervenes in Challenge to Redd Bull II Decision Notice
- AFRC Intervenes in Challenge to Cyclone Bill Project
- Forest Resilience in the Heart of Northern California
- Science We’re Reading: What 2,200 Wildfires Reveal About the Northwest Forest Plan
- Washington, DC Update
- Government shutdown
- Fix Our Forests Act
- Barred Owl Removal Strategy
- National Historic Preservation Act Committee Hearing
- The AFRC Podcast Episode 50: Travis Joseph and Nick Smith
- BLM Proposes Rescission of the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule
- Colville and Okanogan Wenatchee Forests Move Quickly to Salvage Fire Areas
- Snowy Butte Draft EA Open for Public Comment
- Judge Christensen Rules that the Horsefly Project May Proceed
- Judge Christensen Finds Illegal Road Use Analysis Unlawful in the Knotty Pine Project
- Washington Court of Appeals Hears Argument on DNR’s Wishbone Timber Sale
- Emerging Leaders Program Alumni Gather in Spokane to Sharpen Skills and Strengthen Our Industry
- 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