The Oregon Forest Resources Institute is producing a special video, Build a House; Frame a Future, highlighting the American Forest Resource Council’s partnership with Springfield/Eugene Habitat for Humanity to build a new home for the Navarette-Bravo family.
Today, AFRC President Travis Joseph sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Zinke requesting that he review the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument designation as part of Executive Order 13792 entitled, “Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act.” The April 26 Executive Order requires the Secretary to review certain national monuments made under the Antiquities Act […]
Washington, D.C. Updates New Oversight of the Antiquities Act AFRC 2017 Annual Meeting – Building Success Big Win! D.C. Circuit Finds AFRC Has Standing, Restores Challenge to NSO Critical Habitat AFRC Files Amicus Brief on Supreme Court Intervention Case Ninth Circuit Affirms Win on the Porcupine Project AFRC Moves to Intervene in Lava Project Idaho […]
AFRC President Travis Joseph submitted testimony for the May 2nd House Natural Resources Committee oversight hearing, “The Consequences of Executive Branch Overreach of the Antiquities Act.”
Updates from Washington, D.C. AFRC Files Suit Against Illegal Cascade-Siskiyou Monument Expansion Court Overturns Decision Not to List Coastal Marten Does One Owl Nest Equal an EIS? Marbled Murrelet DEIS Comments Filed DNR Sustainable Harvest DEIS Comments Submitted Busy Month for Oregon BLM Kootenai and Region 1 Update AFRC Annual Meeting: April 18-20 Paul Ehinger […]
AFRC filed a legal challenge to Presidential Proclamation 9564, an order signed by President Obama in his final days of office nearly doubling the size of the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument in Southern Oregon and Northern California.
Save the Date: AFRC’s Annual Meeting, April 18-20 Washington, D.C. Updates Deadline Near for WA DNR DEIS Comments AFRC Exposes D.C. Officials’ Involvement in Flawed BLM RMPs Mixed Decision on Smokey Project Leaves Door Open for 2017 Operations Region 1 and Lolo Update AFRC Welcomes Staff Attorney Sara Ghafouri AFRC Job Opening: Southwestern Oregon Field […]
Trump Administration Makes Early Personnel Moves Legislative Session Underway in Olympia Andy Geissler: Strong economy built on timber industry Western Oregon Timber Sale Outlook Colville Plan and Salvage Update DNR Sustainable Harvest Calculation DEIS Public Meetings Update Take Action: Will Congress Address the Cottonwood Decision? Gorsuch Nominated to Supreme Court Job Opening: AFRC Seeks Southwestern […]
AFRC Field Forester Andy Geissler writes guest column in Register Guard.
This decision was not about conservation. It was not about collaboration or public involvement. It was not about doing the right thing for the next generation. This top-down, last-minute decision was about serving special interests over the objections of hard-working Oregonians who have cared for these lands for generations.