Newsletter

Note from the President: The Election Is Over. Now Congress Must Deliver Bipartisan Forest Management Reforms. Washington DC Update Congress returns for lame duck session Early predictions on committee leadership changes Blue tsunami also felt in the Northwest The AFRC Podcast Episode 62: How the Forest Service Delivered 3.3 Billion...

A Fork in the Road: Have We Learned Any Lessons in 30 years? Federal Timber Sales Reach 3.3 Billion Board Feet, Highest Since 1997 Committee Leaders Release Bipartisan Senate Permitting Reform Deal Western Oregon BLM FY2026 Accomplishments and Look Ahead to FY2027 Ninth Circuit Allows Critical BLM Siuslaw HLB Plan...

Washington, DC Update Congress approves spending measures Forest Service pares down facility closure list The AFRC Podcast Episode 60: BRC’s Ben Burr- Restoring Public Lands Access for All Americans Registration Open: Federal Timber Purchasers Coalition (FTPC) Fall Meeting Sawtooth National Forest Proposes First Use of Nationwide Post-Fire Recovery EA Boise...

Washington, DC Update House and Senate Pass Competing Continuing Resolutions Senate Farm Bill Hits Snag Bentz, Merkley Introduce Bipartisan Wildfire Reduction Market Expansion Act The AFRC Podcast Episode 59: PERC’s Jonathan Wood on Wildlife and Forests USDA Announces Investments in Wood Products Industry, Biomass, New Market Opportunities Grasshopper Fire Shows...

AFRC President Testifies before Congress, Highlights the Importance of the Forest Products Industry to Managing National Forests Washington, DC Update Farm Bill Fix Our Forests Act Appropriations The AFRC Podcast Episode 58: Dr. Norm Johnson and the Northwest Forest Plan, Lessons Learned and the Future Forest Service 3rd Quarter Accomplishments...

Washington, DC Update Forest Service Oversight hearings, Reorganization Interior Appropriations Pearce Confirmed as BLM Director AFRC Joins Markets Matter Convening in Madison, Wisconsin The AFRC Podcast Episode 57: Is Federal Timber Turning a Corner? Northwest Forest Plan 30-year Socioeconomic Report Published District Court Vacates the Bureau of Land Management’s Blue...

Washington, DC Update Key Interior Appropriations Updates Farm Bill Passes; Woody Biomass in RFS Amendment Fails The AFRC Podcast Episode 56: Chief Schultz Takes Us Inside the Forest Service Reorganization AFRC Goes to Washington, DC on Earth Day AFRC Completes Record-Breaking 2026 Annual Meeting, “Transformational and Durable” Forest Service 1st...

Washington, DC Update God Squad Forest Service Announces Agency Reorganization Forest Service Updates Timeline for Northwest Forest Plan Amendment and USDA Finalizes NEPA Regulations The AFRC Podcast Episode 55: Travis Joseph; A Reset for Western Oregon’s BLM O&C Timberlands BLM Proposes New Categorical Exclusions Tri-Forest Proposal Aims to Strengthen Timber...

Registration is Open: AFRC’s 2026 Annual Meeting, Skamania Lodge, April 7-9 Washington, DC Update Appropriations Farm Bill? Boren sworn in at USDA Forest Service Proposes Nationwide Post Fire EA Oregon District Court Sets Aside the Forest Service’s Timber Stand Improvement CE Forest Service Signs Decision on the Ellis Project The...

Washington, DC Update Shutdown ends SPEED Act Senate ENR hearings The AFRC Podcast Episode 51: Sara Ghafouri and the Legal Frontlines of Forestry Virginia District Court Dismisses Plaintiffs’ Challenge to the Forest Service’s 2020 NEPA Regulations New Endangered Species Act Regulations Proposed Siuslaw National Forest and Oregon Department of Forestry...

Washington, DC Update Government shutdown Fix Our Forests Act Barred Owl Removal Strategy National Historic Preservation Act Committee Hearing The AFRC Podcast Episode 50: Travis Joseph and Nick Smith BLM Proposes Rescission of the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule Colville and Okanogan Wenatchee Forests Move Quickly to Salvage Fire Areas...

Washington, DC Update Government shutdown Hearing on Public Lands Bills Postponed SPEED Act Greg Hibbard joins AFRC as Staff Attorney Forest Service Fiscal Year Wrap-up BLM End-of-Year Wrap Up AFRC and Calforests Submit Joint Comments Urging Rescission of Roadless Rule The AFRC Podcast Episode 49: Amanda Kaster & Montana’s Historic...