HUGE REDUCTION IN ANCIENT FOREST CLEARCUTTING

August 26, 2014, www.oregon.gov | “The reduction began in 1989 with our first court injunction against the clearcutting of ancient forests on public land, on behalf of the Northern Spotted Owl. Logging since then has been primarily in younger forests on corporate timber land.

HUGE REDUCTION IN ANCIENT FOREST CLEARCUTTING — in Oregon since 1989
The reduction began in 1989 with our first court injunction against the clearcutting of ancient forests on public land, on behalf of the Northern Spotted Owl. Logging since then has been primarily in younger forests on corporate timber land.
Twin lawsuits against the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management resulted in the Northwest Forest Plan of 1994. As this graph shows, the amount of timber harvest in Western Oregon dropped dramatically after that.
Source: Oregon Department of Forestry, http://www.oregon.gov/odf/Pages/resource_planning/2012timberharvestreport.aspx

Photo: HUGE REDUCTION IN ANCIENT FOREST CLEARCUTTING -- in Oregon since 1989
The reduction began in 1989 with our first court injunction against the clearcutting of ancient forests on public land, on behalf of the Northern Spotted Owl. Logging since then has been primarily in younger forests on corporate timber land.
Twin lawsuits against the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management resulted in the Northwest Forest Plan of 1994.  As this graph shows, the amount of timber harvest in Western Oregon dropped dramatically after that.
Source:  Oregon Department of Forestry, http://www.oregon.gov/odf/Pages/resource_planning/2012timberharvestreport.aspx

 

 

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