January 11, 2021
Washington State University and the University of Idaho Extension Foresters will host experts from state and federal agencies and academic researchers for the free 2021 Online Family Foresters Workshop, Jan. 22, 2021.
Family forests are vital to the economy and quality of life in the Inland Northwest, supporting wildlife habitat, timber production, scenic quality, and many other values.
Washington State University and the University of Idaho Extension Foresters will host experts from state and federal agencies and academic researchers for the free 2021 Online Family Foresters Workshop, Jan. 22, 2021.
Aimed at consulting and state service foresters, as well as other natural resource professionals who work with family forest owners, the event shares the latest information, technology, and skills in stewarding private lands.
A new collaborative restoration project is bringing together landowners, conservationists and the timber industry in a rare win-win for environmentalists, anglers, the logging industry and rural communities.
The Atlantic
Alaska’s abandoned ships are turning into a multimillion-dollar environmental nuisance.
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The Lumberman, a 107-foot World War II–era steel-hull tugboat, has been floating for months at the quiet cruise-ship dock in Juneau, awaiting a watery grave. Abandoned for nearly a decade, the Lumberman was moored in Juneau’s Gastineau Channel in the early 2000s by its last owner. Two years ago, the 192-ton tugboat’s anchor line broke, stranding it in state tidelands and creating a jurisdictional hot potato for city, state, and Coast Guard officials as they debated how to dispose of the vessel.
Goal: Cancel Chameleon Timber Sale to stop the logging of 100-year-old trees.
One hundred-year-old trees in Washington’s Capitol State Forest are on their way to being logged, despite the public’s explicit disapproval. The Chameleon Timber Sale puts the Capitol State Forest at higher risk of wildfires and is sure to accelerate the effects of climate change by removing what could act as a carbon sink, given the opportunity to mature fully into old growth.
The Chameleon Timber Sale is a blatant betrayal of the people whom the Washington Department of Natural Resources is intended to serve and represent, as concerned citizens opposing the project have been removed from the land. While experts all over the world are working tirelessly to cut down on carbon emissions with no certain solutions in sight, mature forests are one of the few things we can count on. We are in desperate need of old growth now more than ever before and it is downright irresponsible to log mature forest in th