Mapes began working at The Seattle Times in 1997, specializing in coverage of the environment, natural history and Native ...

The memorandum doesn't affect the amendment process underway to update the Northwest Forest Plan. The Forest Service is being set up to fail, said Steve Pedery, conservation director at Oregon ...

The Northwest Forest Plan, adopted in 1994, allowed some logging to restart while protecting essential habitat for spotted owls and other imperiled wildlife, like marbled murrelets and salmon.

(Lily Roby/Courthouse News Service) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — Since 1994, the Northwest Forest Plan has protected 24 million acres of Pacific Northwest forests from logging. That could soon change. With ...

The result was the historic Northwest Forest Plan, which protected millions of acres of forest, but also stripped many small towns of their jobs and dignity, and further entrenched the rural/urban ...

For example, all northern spotted owl nesting, roosting and foraging habitat was dropped, as were all units within the Northwest Forest Plan boundaries. The 30-day comment period opened Tuesday ...

Although northern spotted owl populations have continued to drop, the Bush administration ramped up attacks on the owl by releasing a recovery plan that proposed less habitat protection than the ...