Planning Rule Lawsuit Filed Focus on Forest Health Bills Litigation and Fire Impacts Owl CH Economic Impact Underestimated Forest Service Issues Objection Rule Williamette Ecological Forestry Colville Blowdown Perez Named State Director New Wallowa-Whitman Supervisor
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Forest Planning Rule Lawsuit
Today, AFRC and a broad group of national and regional interests filed suit in Washington, D.C. to overturn the new Forest Service Planning Rule adopted last April.
July 2012 Newsletter
Supreme Court Takes Forest Roads Case SPI Settles Fire Damage Case Farm Bill Forestry Provisions Spotted Owl Critical Habitat Comments Counties Granted Extension Suit Filed on Murrelet Take Beaverslide Victory DNR Timber Program Report Western Governors Letter to Congress New Planning Process on Willamette Snow Basin Project National Forest System Rework Betsy McGreer Honored Maness […]
Supreme Ct. Forest Roads
The timber industry is pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court today announced it will review a 2010 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision requiring National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for forest roads.
June 2012 Newsletter
Interior Approps Bill Passed Wildfire Update Victory on Mudflow Project Labrador Bill Lynx Mapping Halts Project DNR Sued Over Murrelet EPA Forest Roads Response Owl Critical Habitat Hearing Roadless Amicus Brief Sustainable Forest Action Coalition Save our Forests Video Kitzhaber’s Natural Resource Team
May 2012 Newsletter
EPA on NPDES Permits Congressional Hearing on Federal Forests SRS Reauthorization & Forestry Legislation 2013 Interior Appropriations DNR Murrelet Interim Strategy DNR Murrelet Long Term Strategy Another Thinning Project Challenged Stewardship Contract Reauthorization BLM Planning Owl Comment Period Extended FS Issues Interim Directives National FTPC Meets in Denver Idaho Panhandle Forest Plan Comments Consequences of […]
Congressional hearing releaes
The timber industry joined those testifying at today’s Congressional field hearing in Longview, Washington, in calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to reconsider its flawed draft rule to nearly triple the amount of land arbitrarily set aside for the threatened northern spotted owl.
April 2012 Newsletter
2012 AFRC Annual Meeting Recap County Payments Reauthorization Murrelet Long-Term Conservation Strategy Balance of Powers House Ag/Forestry Hearing H.R. 4089-Interesting Dicks to Retire Ed Shepard to Step Down New Forest Supervisors Hawkinson to FRA Ellen Engstedt Simpson
March 2012 Newsletter
AFRC Annual Meeting Near FWS Obsures Habitat Issues BLM Plans Again BLM Ignores Process Senate Votes to Reauthorize County Payments DNR Marbled Murrelet Strategy Stay in NPDES Case Court Complicates Water Regulatory Review DNR Biomass Study DNR Timber Program Report Ponderosa Pine Utilization Standards & Indexing Idaho Environmental Forum IFA Executive Norm Bjorklund
Statement on Rogue Wilderness Expansion
Today, AFRC sent a letter to Sen. Wyden and Merkley expressing the opposition of the timber industry to S. 2001 which would expand the Rogue Wilderness.