DNR’s old growth expert and research scientist in the Forest Resources Division. “Because, in the long run, that’s going to be better.” Yet conservationists want to imagine a world where ...

The trees in question do not qualify for old-growth protections ... local services that depend on DNR’s success,” Travis Joseph, president of the American Forest Resource Council, an industry ...

The Department of Natural Resources has a long legacy of leading on forest management issues, setting one of the first old-growth forest ... to better identify and map the characteristics of ...

For Seattleites, rain, moss, ferns—and yes, slugs—are in our DNA, so it’s a homecoming of sorts to wander this forest primeval. One of the few old-growth temperate rain ... Or grab a trail map and ...

DNR put up a timber sale next to the Merrill Lake Natural Resources Conservation Area (NRCA) in Cowlitz County. The Merrill Lake NRCA included old growth forest and biodiversity, and was used by ...

That’s when the Biden administration abruptly terminated a months-long effort to create a new policy to conserve old growth forests across the country. This policy would have updated all forest ...

Derek Kilmer (D-WA) would give those 72 acres of land ... They also say they wouldn’t harvest the old-growth cedar forest for commercial use, but would harvest around the edges of the potential ...

This pause is effective until the DNR completes its review of how it defines old-growth forest. The sale will then be evaluated under the new criteria, according to Brodie’s email. Old-growth ...

Legal questions at stake in the Freedom timber sale fight, such as whether DNR surveyed for structurally complex forest, or just old-growth, will be familiar to anyone who has followed the last ...