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New Washington Public Lands chief defends pause on logging ‘almost old-growth forests’
Can Washington state hold off harvesting ... of timber from 70,000 to 80,000 acres of older forests that don’t yet qualify as “old-growth” but still are old enough to provide valuable ...
The Press Democrat5dOpinion
Close to Home: Keep old-growth forests off the chopping block
Proposed changes to the Northwest Forest Plan could endanger old-growth forests in California and the Pacific Northwest.
The Daily World8dOpinion
How I’m setting WA forests on a better management path
Last month, in my first act as commissioner of public lands, I paused the sale of certain structurally complex, mature ...
In support of the slow logging zone in WA forests
Old growth can be a renewable resource, too, if we preserve original forest and protect some of the resilient second growth, ...
Center for Biological Diversity5mon
1 Million Comments Support Old-Growth Protections on National Forests
WASHINGTON— The U.S. Forest Service has received more ... A 90-day public comment period on the agency’s National Old Growth Amendment Draft Environmental Impact Statement ended today. Federal and ...
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New Washington Public Lands chief defends pause on logging ‘almost old-growth forests’
Can Washington state hold off harvesting older forests ... RELATED: A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests in the NW “My interest is in making sure that ...
Seattle Times10d
How I’m setting WA forests on a better management path
These forests make up a very small part of our state forestlands but have an outsize impact on habitat, providing the benefits of old-growth stands ... in Western Washington as structurally ...