Cassandra Profita
Reporter for Earthfix-
Conservation groups are suing the U.S. Forest Service over its plans to log hazard trees along hundreds of roads in the Willamette National Forest that burned in last year’s wildfires.
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On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Oregon tribal leader Chuck Sams to be the first Native American director of the National Park Service.
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Oregon is still removing hazardous trees along roads and properties that burned in last year’s wildfires, but the operation faces allegations of mismanagement and excessive tree-cutting. In response, lawmakers, expert foresters and critics are taking a closer look at the burned trees marked for removal.
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A group of protesters forced companies to stop removing hazard trees off Highway 126 east of Eugene.
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A growing number of people are sounding alarms over excessive tree-cutting as the state removes hazard trees damaged by last year's wildfires. Arborists who have worked on the project say the work is being mismanaged and needs to stop.
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Special rules for logging after wildfire allow more trees to be cut faster with fewer restrictions.
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The companies face an existential threat as more governments and businesses move to tackle climate change. So a growing number have their own plans to decarbonize, by creating renewable gas.
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Natural gas companies face an existential threat as more governments and businesses move to tackle climate change. But a growing number have their own plans to decarbonize, by creating renewable gas.
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The Nez Perce Tribe is reclaiming an ancestral village site in the Eastern Oregon town of Joseph more than a century after being pushed out of the…
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Environmental groups are asking the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to give careful scrutiny to a natural gas plant near Hermiston that started…