Officials at the U.S. Forest Service are proposing new management plans for eastern Oregon’s Blue Mountains that include potentially tripling the amount of logging across 5.5 million acres in the next decade. The Forest Service published a draft of proposed changes to the 35-year-old Blue Mountain Forest Plan last week. It would allow more logging, […]

A tiny school district in Northwest Oregon surrounded by state forestland will get its day in court against the Oregon Department of Forestry over a conservation plan that would reduce logging to protect threatened and endangered species, and potentially lead to less school funding. The Jewell School District, a single school serving 115 students in […]