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The U.S. Forest Service often targets old-growth forests for logging — putting some of the oldest trees in the region on the back of logging trucks in order to reach agency timber targets.
The U.S. Forest Service gave conflicting answers on whether to expect chainsaws on Arizona’s Mount Lemmon or Mount Graham, and its own map indicates logging trucks could also be coming to ...
The decision calls for commercially logging 5,281 acres, including logging 567 acres of old growth forest, clearcutting across wide swaths of forest, and non-commercial tree-cutting and burning ...
Starting in the 1950s, the Forest Service built tens of thousands of road miles to facilitate logging, and in many cases it effectively paid private timber companies to install roads on its behalf.
Trump wants to increase logging there by 25% in five years. ... So I think it’s going to be a long time before we see logging trucks clogging I-5. ... Forest-product industry celebrates Trump ...
The Trump administration plans to rescind a nearly quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging on national forest lands. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Monday that the 2001 roadless ...
Forest service gives no answers to impacts in Washington state. ... So I think it’s going to be a long time before we see logging trucks clogging I-5. ...
In the Old Growth Forest the 100-year-old trees “fared pretty well” with mostly younger trees snapping off. “The Old Growth stands, those big guys we all talk about and ‘oh and ah’ over.
Forest service gives no answers to impacts in Washington state. ... So I think it’s going to be a long time before we see logging trucks clogging I-5. ...