Posts tagged forests
Legal Challenge to BLM’s Late Successional Reserve Logging Scheme

A coalition of conservation organizations filed a legal complaint challenging the Bureau of  Land Management’s (BLM) “Integrated Vegetation Management” (IVM) program that would  aggressively log forest stands located within Late Successional Reserves, areas purportedly set aside for  forest conservation.

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Approval of old-growth timber sales in northern spotted owl habitat violated Endangered Species Act

Judge in the District Court for the District of Oregon ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service justification for Bureau of Land Management timber sales totaling nearly 18,000 acres including old growth forests violated the Endangered Species Act.

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Protections Denied for At-Risk Pacific Fisher by Trump Administration

The Trump administration today denied Endangered Species Act protections to Pacific fishers from Northern California to the Canadian border, but granted them endangered status in the southern Sierra. The decision reversed a 2019 proposal to list fishers as threatened throughout their West Coast range.

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