WASHINGTON (May 21, 2021) — This week, a coalition of agriculture and forestry groups — including the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Forest Resources Council, the American Sheep Industry Association, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and the Public Lands Council — filed motions in court in defense of delisting of the gray wolf under […]
Press Releases
U.S. District Court Decision Allows Shasta-Trinity National Forest Project to Proceed After Long Delay
The American Forest Resource Council (AFRC) applauds a federal court’s May 17 decision allowing the U.S. Forest Service to proceed with the long-delayed Pettijohn Late Successional Reserve Habitat Improvement and Fuels Reduction Project on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest near Weaverville, CA. AFRC intervened to defend the project in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of […]
CORRIM: The Plant a Trillion Trees Campaign to Reduce Global Warming –Fleshing Out the Concept
The following is a press release from the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM). The full study can be accessed here. CORRIM: The Plant a Trillion Trees Campaign to Reduce Global Warming –Fleshing Out the Concept Bruce Lippke, Maureen Puettmann, Elaine Oneil & Chadwick Dearing Oliver Global warming is an environmental risk linked […]
Less than five percent of burned BLM lands will be salvaged after Holiday Farm Fire
Dead and dying trees will be removed on less than five percent of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands impacted by the Holiday Farm Fire, according to a plan released by the agency on April 27. The BLM’s plan calls for area salvage on just 910 acres. Though the agency is also removing hazard trees […]
AFRC Welcomes Montana’s RY Timber as New Member
The American Forest Resource Council (AFRC) proudly welcomes RY Timber as its newest member. The company currently operates a stud mill in Livingston, Montana, and is one of the top structural lumber manufacturers in the state. In the spring of 2020, RY idled its Townsend, Montana sawmill citing a lack of timber to run at […]
AFRC Welcomes Montana’s F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Co. as New Member
The American Forest Resource Council (AFRC) proudly welcomes F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Co. as its newest member. This fully integrated forest products company operates a sawmill near Columbia Falls, MT and sustainably manages a 39,000+/- acre tree farm. According to Stoltze, the company also sources up to 60 percent of its timber from U.S. […]
AFRC, Counties Challenge Delay to 2021 Northern Spotted Owl Critical Habitat Rule
The American Forest Resource Council (AFRC) today joined the Association of O&C Counties and counties in Washington, Oregon, and California in challenging the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) illegal delay in implementing its 2021 critical habitat designation for the Northern Spotted Owl (NSO). The 2021 critical habitat designation removed areas that are not habitat […]
Ninth Circuit Upholds Denial of Injunction Against Brebner Flat Project on Idaho Panhandle National Forest
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on February 22 refused to halt the Brebner Flat Project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest. The ruling affirms a U.S. District Court’s previous denial of a preliminary injunction against this project, which seeks to improve forest health on federal lands in the Wildland Urban Interface […]
AFRC Welcomes Woodgrain as New Member
The American Forest Resource Council proudly welcomes Woodgrain as it newest member. With sawmills in Idaho and Oregon, the company joins a growing trade association of logging and milling operations across the West. “AFRC is proud to serve Woodgrain. We are committed to helping this company obtain the wood fiber it needs to manufacture world-class […]
NSO Critical Habitat: Myths and Facts
On January 13, 2021 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a rule designating more than 6.1 million acres of critical habitat for the Northern Spotted Owl (NSO). Anti-forestry groups are making false claims about what the rule means for owls and our forests. Learn the truth. MYTH: This rule reduces protections for the Northern […]