President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies to increase logging on national forests nationwide, including in Washington state, counter to decades of environmental policy and protections. A ...
Can Washington state hold off harvesting older forests in the face of a projected $12 billion budget deficit without ...
Decades-old protections for Washington's national forests could be loosened to increase logging in our state, due to new orders from the federal government. Seattle Times environment reporter Lynda ...
WASHINGTON — The state has paused the October Mountain State Forest logging and management project to determine whether the plan is climate friendly. The state Department of Conservation and ...
Washington's Commissioner of Public Lands is addressing a memo from the Department of Agriculture that raised concerns about the future of the state's national forests. Around 59% of all national ...
On his first day in office, Dave Upthegrove, the state’s new public lands commissioner, said he would pause logging sales in some older state-managed forests for about six months. In doing so, he’s ...
Re: “Lands commissioner’s logging ‘pause’ upsets a careful calculation” (Jan. 31, Opinion): On Jan. 15, his first day as the new Commissioner of Public Lands, Dave Upthegrove announced a six-month ...
A section of the Colville National Forest is shown in this file photo Steve Ringman The Seattle Times/TNS The Pacific Northwest is fortunate to have vast forests and ideal conditions for growing trees ...