Related: Environmentalists push for stronger old-growth protections in Northwest Forest Plan Johnson said ... the court injunction on logging in the Pacific Northwest and put the emphasis on ...

the Pacific Northwest and areas of the Rocky Mountains. Larger expanses of old growth survive in Alaska, such as within the Tongass National Forest. There’s wide consensus on the importance of ...

Proposed changes to the Northwest Forest Plan could endanger old-growth forests in California and the Pacific Northwest. The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author ...

is counter to decades of environmental policy in the Pacific Northwest, where federal forests have been largely off-limits to logging of old-growth trees since the Northwest Forest Plan ...

“For nearly three decades, the Northwest Forest Plan has protected Pacific Northwest wildlife, clean water and old-growth forests,” Steve Pedery, conservation director for Oregon ...

Federal officials are preparing to disband an advisory committee tasked with guiding policies for millions of acres of national forests in the Pacific ... the decades-old Northwest Forest Plan ...

The change could help foster conditions conducive to growing larger, old growth trees that are ... regional forester for the ...

The Northwest Forest Plan, currently undergoing updates, strikes a balance between timber harvest and conservation of ...

Crucial to the integrity of Pacific Northwest ecosystems, they’re expert recyclers of nutrients in soil and water, improving water quality in springs and rivers and enriching soils in old-growth ...