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A logging company has canceled a proposed road within a Bureau of Land Management project in Josephine County. Activists had claimed that construction of the route threatened old-growth trees. Protesters had been staying at the location of a proposed road within the BLM’s Salmon Run timber sale, which they claim threatened old-growth trees, for the […] The post Activists say more direct action likely after claiming victory in BLM timber sale appeared first on Oregon Capital Chronicle.

A coalition of three dozen environmental groups from around the country are calling on the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to cancel a timber sale on federal land near Medford

A coalition of three dozen environmental groups from around the country are calling on the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to cancel a timber sale on federal land near Medford where activists say centuries old trees are slated to be cut.

<strong>Timber operators point to long-standing economic challenges, new state forestry rules.</strong>

Activists that have blocked a logging site on federal land near Medford want the head of the Interior to cancel the timber sale.