Timber organizations are calling for action on the Northwest Forest Plan after President Donald Trump issued an executive order for the immediate expansion of American lumber production.

(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 ...