BLM’s Delicate Timber Dance
By ADAM PEARSON
News Review
November 25, 2007
Under the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Roseburg District has met only half of its timber sales target. Read more…
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BLM Timberlands Draft is a Failure
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By Ron Sadler
Eugene Register Guard
November 13, 2007
The draft environmental impact statement for the revision of resource management plans governing Bureau of Land Management lands in Western Oregon is out for public review. It comes in three volumes, and weighs almost 10 pounds.
Fish and Wildlife Takes New Tack on Spotted Owl Recovery Plan
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By Adam Pearson
The News Review
October 25, 2007
With six months to go before the release of a final recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday a new strategy for saving the bird from extinction. Read more…
Owl Process Ruffles Feathers
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By Paul Fattig
Medford Mail Tribune
October 25, 2007
Outside contractor to analyze comments on recovery draft
A member of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s northern spotted owl recovery team says the agency is outsourcing its responsibilities with its plan to hire a private contractor to work on its final northern spotted owl recovery plan. Read more…
Bush Administration Tries to Reverse Old-Growth Forest Protection Plan
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OMB Watch
October 23, 2007
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is trying to dismantle a 1994 landmark management plan that balances logging, endangered species and old-growth forest protections. Read more…
New Battle of Logging vs. Spotted Owls Looms in West
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By FELICITY BARRINGER
New York Times
October 18, 2007
GALICE, Ore. — A 1990s’ truce that quieted the bitter wars between loggers and environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest is in danger of collapse. Read more…
Water, fish at risk under forest plan, EPA says
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By Susan Palmer
Eugene Register Guard
October 17, 2007
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is in the process of revising its recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. A draft version of the recovery plan, which will be finalized in 2008, already has drawn stinging criticism in several scientific peer reviews for failing to use the best science in narrowing protected areas for the birds. Read more…
Old Trees, New Plan
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By Susan Palmer
Eugene Register Guard
October 29, 2007
The fight over old growth may resume with the latest BLM logging proposal
COTTAGE GROVE – They come upon the big trees partway up a ridge west of Susan Gabriel’s land just outside Cottage Grove. Gabriel lives in a modest house on 20 acres in a narrow trough among the hills that rise up to the Coast Range, a place famous for growing some of the world’s tallest trees. Read more…
Scientists Say Revised Plan for Owl Mired in Politics
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By Juliet Eilperin (The Washington Post)
Seattle Times
October 03, 2007
WASHINGTON — More than 100 outside scientists suggested Tuesday that political pressure may have led federal officials to water down protections for the northern spotted owl in a recently revised recovery plan for the threatened bird. Read more…
Spotted Owl Plan Under Fire
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By Bill Kettler
Medford Mail Tribune
October 03, 2007
More than 100 scientists called on the U.S. Department of the Interior Tuesday to scrap its draft recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, suggesting political pressure produced a plan that would open more federal forest land to logging. Read more…
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