Statement on Trump Administration proposal to increase categorical exclusions on national forests
Instead of fast-tracking risky logging projects, the U.S. Forest Service should double-down on investments in collaboration.
Instead of fast-tracking risky logging projects, the U.S. Forest Service should double-down on investments in collaboration.
“Dead” trees are actually full of life! Standing dead trees, called snags, provide birds and mammals with shelter to raise young and raptors with unobstructed vantage points. Large downed trees also provide important habitat for wildlife. Hundreds of species of birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and fish benefit from snags for food, nesting or shelter! Produced … Continued
Through 3/27, comment on the health of communities, wildlife and forest lands in the Upper Wenatchee Pilot Project.
Comments to USFS regarding wildlife and habitat in the Snoquera area of the Central Cascades near Greenwater.
Conservation Northwest participated in DNR workshops and provided input on the new Wildland Fire Protection Strategic Plan.
Plan for northeast Washington national forest lacks sufficient recommended wilderness for important roadless areas.
WILD NW Action Alert #280: Take action to ensure a timber sale in important wildlife habitat is subject to robust environmental and public review.
The deal appears to not include the feared riders related to Alaska or roadless areas, but we await further details. The agreed upon provisions would be amended to the Omnibus Appropriations Bill that Congress has a Friday night deadline to pass.
Opinion Editorial in Wenatchee World from Conservation Northwest and National Wildlife Federation touts benefits of collaborative forest restoration, value of bipartisan wildfire legislation introduced in Washington, D.C.
On November 6, 2017 we joined a dozen other conservation and recreation organizations in a formal comment letter to voice support for a proposed 20-year administrative mineral withdrawal for the 340,079-acre Methow Headwaters region.