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(CN) — Since 1994, the Northwest Forest Plan has protected 24 million acres of Pacific Northwest forests from logging. That could soon change. With the stated goal of preventing wildfires, the U.S.

“The Forest Service now is shifting the frame of the plan fundamentally from restore and protect to logging as much as possible,” Pederey said. Ryan Talbott, Pacific Northwest conservation ...

Some environmental groups have criticized the proposed update to the forest plan for increasing the amount of timber that could be logged from Pacific Northwest forests. Most of that logging would ...

The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, ...

Just beyond Seattle, between national parks and the waters of Puget Sound, Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula offers thrills in ...

"I know a lot of us are really worried about the executive order on logging and what that will ... 70% of the power grid here in the Pacific Northwest." A coordinated protest effort, dubbed ...

He said despite the outcome, it was the best they had. At the very least, it ended the court injunction on logging in the Pacific Northwest and put the emphasis on the ecosystem rather than the ...

U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies under proposed changes to a sweeping ...