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AFRC Concludes 2025 Annual Meeting, “The Time is Now” Washington, DC Update Reconciliation Senate Fix our Forests Act The AFRC Podcast Episode 44: Travis Joseph on Annual Meeting, Trump EO’s and more USDA Secretary Issues Memorandum on Timber Production AFRC Leads Coalition in Challenge to FWS’s Northern Spotted Owl Critical...

Register Now: AFRC Annual Meeting Welcomes Keynote Speaker USFS Associate Chief Chris French Washington, DC Update AFRC submits comments on President Trump’s Executive Orders on timber and lumber production Senate Hearing on Fix Our Forests Act AFRC makes trip to DC. Settlement Reached in Challenge to the Pintler Face Project...

President Trump Signs Historic Executive Orders on U.S. Timber Production, U.S. Lumber Register Now: AFRC Annual Meeting Washington, DC Update Tom Schultz appointed USFS Chief Kathleen Sgamma appointed BLM Director Forestry Legislation CEQ Withdraws NEPA Regulations Federal Workforce Cuts The AFRC Podcast Episode 41: Forestry for the Future, Part 2,...

Washington, DC Update Trump Transition House Passes Fix our Forests Act Reconciliation Registration Open: AFRC Annual Meeting at Skamania Lodge, April 22-24 Fish & Wildlife Service Retains Threatened Status for Grizzly Bear Video: Why it’s Time to Delist the Grizzly Bear Parties Settle in the Challenge to the Bulldog Restoration...

Washington, DC Update Key Committee Assignments Announced Save the Date: AFRC Annual Meeting Set for April 22-24, 2025 The AFRC Podcast: The AFRC Podcast: New government, opportunities for forestry and wood products Northwest Forest Plan Committee Meets in Bellingham, Washington AFRC Successfully Intervenes in the Challenge to BLM’s Blue and...

Washington, DC Update Lame Duck Session Committee leadership changes Trump Transition D.C. Circuit Court Holds that CEQ Has No Legal Authority to Issue NEPA Regulations The AFRC Podcast: Dr. Nate Anderson, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station on forestry and wood products as climate solutions Forest Service Moving Forward to Amend...

Proposed Sáttítla National Monument Raises Wildfire Risk Concerns in Northern California The AFRC Podcast: Episode 38- Forester/Author Ethan Tapper on How to Love a Forest Tenth Circuit Hears Arguments in Challenges to Two National Monuments Federal Timber Purchaser Committee Meets in Bend Oregon Western Oregon BLM 2024 End-of-Year Summary Lassen...

Washington DC Update Fix Our Forests Act Continuing Resolution Upcoming Lame Duck Session Forest Service Budget Woes The AFRC Podcast: Episode 37- Understanding the impacts of NEPA litigation Northwest Forest Plan Amendment DEIS Now Expected in November AFRC Submits Comments on National Old-Growth Amendment DEIS Ninth Circuit Upholds Three Forest...

Northwest Forest Plan Amendment DEIS Pushed to October Washington Primary Election Results The AFRC Podcast: Episode 36- Explaining the Barred Owl Strategy Updates on BLM’s Public Lands Rule—Committee, Litigation, and Guidance AFRC Files Amicus Brief in Support of the Twisp Project and Condition-Based Management Lonerock Fire on Umatilla National Forest...

Washington DC Update Appropriations Permitting legislation 6th Emerging Leaders Program, Sept 12-13, Springfield The AFRC Podcast: Travis Joseph on finding consensus to modernize the Northwest Forest Plan Report: Pacific Northwest Anti-Forestry Groups Dominate NEPA Litigation Nationwide U.S. Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Deference and Redefines When the Statute of Limitations to...

Washington DC Update Fix our Forests Act Wyden’s River Democracy Act Congressional reaction to Biden Administration Old Growth Rule 6th Emerging Leaders Program, Sept 12-13, Springfield The AFRC Podcast: Blending Indigenous knowledge and western science in forest management Forest Service Releases Draft EIS for Old Growth Amendments U.S. Supreme Court...

Washington DC Update Farm Bill Committee Hearings 6th Emerging Leaders Program, Sept 12-13, Springfield The AFRC Podcast: U.S. Forest Service Invests in Wood Innovation Research Assesses Constraints on Mechanical Treatment to Reduce Wildfire Threat The Council on Environmental Quality Finalizes NEPA Phase 2 Revisions U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Finalizes...

AFRC Wraps up 2024 Annual Meeting, “The Future of Public Forest Management” Washington DC Update Forest Service Budget Hearings House Natural Resources Hearing on Westerman Forestry Legislation BLM Conservation Rule Mature and Old Growth The AFRC Podcast: NWTF and Tackling the Nation’s Wildfire Crisis BLM Finalizes Conservation and Land Health...

Washington DC Update Federal government avoids shutdown Congressional hearings Congress Weighs in on Mature and Old Growth Rule The AFRC Podcast: Why Timber Supply Matters in Public Lands Management Mid-year Federal Timber Program Update The U.S. Supreme Court Denies AFRC’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari on its O&C Act Lands...

Washington DC Update Farm Bill prospects look dim Vilsack appears before House Agriculture Committee The AFRC Podcast: Rep. Cliff Bentz on the U.S. Supreme Court, Antiquities Act, O&C Timberlands Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Added to AFRC Annual Meeting Agenda New Lawsuit Challenges Forest Service Timber Targets AFRC Argues Before the...