Interior, BLM offers 62 timber sales in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced a crop of timber sales for federal lands in Western Oregon intended to keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a new long-term forest management strategy....
 4.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 357.0 Cheers and Jeers
Remaking tracks A prosperous local future without a railroad is hard to imagine. So cheers for the start of tunnel repairs on the Coos Bay Rail Link. And cheers to port officials for doggedly pushing this project forward. Good riddance A farewell jee...
1.9K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 206.0 White House scraps Bush logging plan
GRANTS PASS The Obama administration on Thursday scrapped the Bush administration s last-ditch attempt to boost logging in Northwest forests by scaling back protection for the northern spotted owl. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that ...
4.2K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 587.0 DeFazio stands in way of forest use
Rep. DeFazio has betrayed us again. Due to his zealous support for the extreme environmental movement, he refused to lend his support to the W.O.P.R. (Western Oregon Plan Revisions). This plan would have increased our timber harvest 300 percent from ...
1.8K - May. 21, 2009; scored 206.0 Feds get time to decide course of logging lawsuit
GRANTS PASS - The Obama administration has been given more time to decide whether it wants to defend the lawsuits challenging Bush administration plans to boost logging on federal forests in Western Oregon. In papers filed in the various federal cour...
2.5K - May. 21, 2009; scored 499.0 Obama won't defend Bush's spotted owl cuts
Jeff Barnard, AP Environmental Write GRANTS PASS - The Obama administration has notified a federal court it will not support the Bush administration's cut in protections for the northern spotted owl. In a motion filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court i...
3.6K - Apr. 2, 2009; scored 306.0 Timber use must follow fed policies
Loss of county jobs and stable revenue, reduced student enrollments and school funding, large job losses in the timber industry to a significant extent these consequences can be attributed to a federal forest land policy that can be categorized as ...
3.0K - Feb. 25, 2009; scored 253.0 Oregon report: Plan for end of timber safety net
GRANTS PASS Rural counties in Oregon the nation s top recipient of an unusual federal subsidy will have to raise taxes and take other painful steps to prepare for the day when it ends, a governor s task force said on Thursday. That day will be ...
5.7K - Feb. 13, 2009; scored 404.0 BLM rolls out first timber sale under new plan
GRANTS PASS The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is rolling out the first new timber sale under the Western Oregon Plan Revision, known as The Whopper. In documents posted on the Internet Jan. 27, the BLM s Coos Bay District is proposing 1,400 acres ...
3.9K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 317.0 Governor asks Obama team to rethink logging
GRANTS PASS (AP) Gov. Ted Kulongoski is asking the Obama administration to reconsider his objections to U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans to nearly double logging in Western Oregon. The plans call for increasing timber production and federal rev...
0.9K - Jan. 31, 2009; scored 306.0 Lawsuits challenge BLM logging increase in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Conservation groups filed two lawsuits Thursday challenging the Bush administration s last major effort to boost logging in Oregon. The Western Oregon Plan Revision, known as the Whopper, would ramp up logging on the checkerboard o...
1.6K - Jan. 16, 2009; scored 349.0 BLM races to finish 'Whopper' logging plan
GRANTS PASS (AP) The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has rejected major protests to its plan to increase old growth logging in Western Oregon. The agency is racing to finish the plan by the New Year s Eve deadline. Among the more than 260 protests, ...
3.5K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 404.0 BLM extends land plan protest period
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is giving Oregonians more time to protest on the recently released final environmental impact statement over how the agency intends to manage its Western Oregon lands. People who want to submit protests will have un...
1.2K - Nov. 11, 2008; scored 1000.0 | 
