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November 19, 2024

Feds propose more logging in Pacific Northwest forests

  • The proposal would overhaul the Northwest Forest Plan that governs about 38,000 square miles of U.S. Forest Service land in Washington, Oregon and California.
    • By MATTHEW BROWN
    Associated Press

    U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies under proposed changes to a sweeping forest management plan that's been in place for three decades.

    The U.S. Forest Service proposal, released Friday, would overhaul the Northwest Forest Plan that governs about 38,000 square miles in Oregon, Washington and California.


     
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