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...
READ MOREAFRC 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...
READ MOREWashington, 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...
READ MOREWashington, 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...
READ MOREWashington, 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...
READ MOREWashington, DC Update Farm Bill Fix our Forests Act, Permitting Reform Montana’s Daines and Zinke Announce Retirements National Industry Leaders Launch the Federal Timber Purchasers Coalition (FTPC) The AFRC Podcast Episode 54: OSU’s John Bailey talks climate, carbon and sustainable forestry Forest Service Proposes Rule to Amend the Objection Process...
READ MORERegistration 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...
READ MOREWashington, DC Update Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations Permitting Reforms, SPEED Act Forestry Reforms, Fix our Forests Act Secure Rural Schools Passing of Congressman Doug LaMalfa The AFRC Podcast Episode 52: A Conversation with U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz AFRC President Urges Congress to Reform EAJA and End Subsidized Anti-Forestry...
READ MOREWashington, 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...
READ MOREWashington, 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...
READ MOREWashington, 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...
READ MOREWashington, DC Update Congress returns to consider spending, forest policy Trump appointees await confirmation The AFRC Podcast Episode 48: Fuel Treatments: Smart Investments, Healthy Forests Executive Orders Spur Growth of Landscape-Scale Forest Management USDA Takes Next Steps to Rescind the 2021 Roadless Rule AFRC Submits Comments on USDA Reorganization Plan...
READ MOREWashington, DC Update Appropriations Trump Appointees Reconciliation Bill Implementation Permitting reform The AFRC Podcast Episode 47: Rescinding the Roadless Rule- Myth vs. Reality USDA, Forest Service Announce Major Reorganization, Opens Comment Period AFRC Comments on USDA/DOI Revise NEPA Regulations Judge DeSoto Denies Preliminary Injunction Request Against the Round Star Vegetation...
READ MOREWashington, DC Update: Senate Passes Reconciliation Bill AFRC Leads National Coalition Letter on Timber Priorities in Reconciliation Bill USDA Moves to Rescind the Roadless Rule The AFRC Podcast Episode 46: John Culclasure, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation Trump Administration Unveils Executive Order Aiming to Reshape Federal Wildfire Policy Wood Duck Project Win:...
READ MOREWashington, DC Update Budget Reconciliation FY26 Budget Request USDA announces $200 million for expanded timber production Tribal Co-Management Gets Bipartisan Support The AFRC Podcast Episode 45: U.S. Senator Steve Daines Supreme Court Clarifies Courts’ Role in NEPA in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado Federal Agencies Rescind the...
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