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Exposed: Post-fire Logging Harms Endangered Owl
Mixed-severity fire, like that shown, provides functional habitat for northern spotted owls. Photo credit, Scott Harding. Private...
Nov 24, 2015


Agency Delays May Cook Owl’s Chance at Protection
Such seems to typify the plight of the northern spotted owl in California, a species in precipitous decline with no voice to defend...
Nov 24, 2015


Push for More Logging Under the Northwest Forest Plan
In the late 1980s, before the Northwest Forest Plan, loggers were pulling 4.5 billion board feet of timber out of federal forests within...
Oct 27, 2015


CAL FIRE Botches Green Diamond THP Approval
Aerial view of Green Diamond clearcut. If a timber harvesting permit is approved illegally, and no one is watching, does the landowner...
Oct 27, 2015


State of the Redwoods – Remembering the Past, Envisioning the Future
The coastal redwood forests are considered part of the larger temperate rainforest system that once blanketed the coast of the Pacific...
Oct 14, 2015


Whistleblower Tip Line
Union of Concerned Scientists, staff from major federal agencies tasked with protecting our health and environment believe that too often...
Oct 12, 2015


No Small Feat—Your Comments Helped Protect Rare Mendocino Pygmy Cypress Woodlands and Marbled Murrel
The Mendocino Central Coast Waste Transfer Station Project would have taken 12.6 acres from Russian Gulch State Park, which contains...
Sep 29, 2015

