Walden Secures Reauthorization of County Payments Duane Vaagen Testifies Before Senate Committee AFRC’s Tom Partin Testifies on Appropriations Northwest Forest Plan Revision Project Challenge to DNR Salvage Sale Insect and Disease CE Signed Goose EIS and Analysis Paralysis CEQ GHG Guidance Comments Divided Lands Region 6 Forest Supervisors New Faces on the Mendocino Last Chance […]
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February 2015 Newsletter
FS and BLM 2016 Budgets SRS Bill Introduced Ninth Circuit Upholds Landscape Scale Project Designation by Prescription Debacle Federal Forests an Early Focus for Daines Will Kitzhaber’s Forestry Legacy Continue? Sustainable Harvest Update and Arrearage Scoping Washington Legislature Spotted Owl Consultation Gets Silly Forest Planning Rule Directives Northwest Forest Plan Revision Begins Jordan Cove Pipeline […]
January 2015 Newsletter
SRS, Wildfire, O&C and Forestry Bills Committee Leadership Named Kitzhaber’s Plan for Federal Forests Washington DNR State Lands DNR Scoping Sustainable Harvest Calculation Forest Plan Updates Pinchot Partners Receive Award New Fish and Wildlife Bosses Rod Swanson 2015 Annual Meeting
December 2014 Newsletter
Congress Passes Key Bills – Exits DC Region 6 Timber Purchasers Meeting Forest Service Objection Process Ninth Circuit Upholds Beaverslide Project Concerning Verdict on Snow Basin Plaintiff Assessed Costs in Algoma Case Senate Announces Committee Assignments Erica Rhoad Takes Staff Director Job DNR State Aquatic Lands HCP Umpqua Road Rules Report Critcizes ESA Listing Process […]
November 2014 Newsletter
Senate Committee Passes Flawed Wyden O&C Bill 2014 Election and the 114th Congress EPA Vision for Biomass Improves Summer of Fire Final USFS Sales Numbers Status of the Rogue Study Shows Restoration Needed
Flawed O&C Solution Pushed through Senate Committee Markup
Senator Wyden’s flawed O&C legislation (S. 1784) is unanimously opposed by Oregon’s forest products industry, opposed by the O&C Counties, and lacks support from Reps. DeFazio, Schrader, and Walden and Governor Kitzhaber
October 2014 Newsletter
Vilsack Report-Spot On! Western Regions Timber Performance YTD Wildfire Statistics Western Oregon Wildfire Summary Moist Mixed Conifer Publication Wood Innovation Funding Grants Hal Salwasser
September 2014 Newsletter
Judges Give Green Light to Salvage Congress Stalls and Goes on Recess SRS/PILT/LWCF 2015 BLM Timber Targets Wyden Input on O&C Plans Fire Statistics Klamath Fires Continue Burning Shasta Trinity Project Challenges Continue Forest Service Groundwater Proposal Washington Forest Collaborative Summit Forestry Leaders Pass On Oregon Board of Forestry Forest Service Personnel Changes James L. […]
Litigation Against Douglas Complex Salvage Disregards Rural Communities, Forest Rehabilitation
On September 30, 2014 Tom Partin, President of the American Forest Resource Council, issued a statement regarding the efforts of environmental groups to litigate and halt salvage and reforestation efforts on the site of the 2013 Douglas Complex fires in Southwest Oregon.
August 2014 Newsletter
Wyden Tries End Run on O&C Bill Fire Borrowing Again? Want Water? Manage our National Forests Siuslaw Designation by Prescription DNR Trust Land Transfer Program WA Water Quality Standards Litigation Proposed Blue Mountain Forest Plan AFRC Welcomes Jim Pena Six Rivers New Forest Supervisor