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Recent print and broadcast news coverage of WFLC'c legal cases and advocacy issues listed chronologically. You may also browse news coverage by issue using the menu in the sidebar.
Aug 12, 2009: Architecture Week: "FSC Versus SFI"
August 12, 2009 -- The battle between rival forest certification systems FSC and SFI is crescendoing in a showdown over recognition in the LEED system, the preeminent green building standard in the U.S.
Aug 03, 2009: Seattle Times: "New strategy to save forests: logging"
August 3, 2009 -- Conservationists are partnering with timber companies on deals, and environmentalists are praising "working forests," the friendly new term for clear-cuts — in order to stave off development.
Jul 23, 2009: NW Public Radio: "Rock Bottom Timber Prices Hurt NW School Budgets"
July 23, 2009 -- Here’s one more casualty of the recession: timber prices. They’re down as much as 60%. That means loggers are out of work and mills are closing. But the rock-bottom prices are also having a trickle-down effect on school kids. That’s because logging is still an important source of funding for schools in the Northwest. Austin Jenkins explains.
Jul 09, 2009: Seattle Times: "Wash. tree farm strikes habitat deal"
A Washington state tree farm has agreed to create and enhance habitat for northern spotted owls and marbled murrelets on thousands of acres of forest land it owns in Lewis and Skamania counties.
Jul 06, 2009: Seattle Times: "Study finds no increased fire threat in owl habitat"
A new study challenges a basic justification about the threat of wildfires that the Bush administration used to make room for more logging in old growth forests that are home to the northern spotted owl.
Jun 24, 2009: Seattle PI: "Seattle judge dismisses suit over lumber payments"
June 24, 2009 -- Conservation groups lack standing to challenge the federal government's decision to give $350 million from a U.S.-Canada softwood lumber settlement to forestry foundations, a judge has ruled.
Jun 16, 2009: Bellingham Herald: "As step toward ending lawsuit, Bellingham pays Mount Baker School District $225,000"
June 16, 2009 -- The Bellingham City Council took a step toward ending a longstanding lawsuit challenging restrictive Lake Whatcom watershed logging rules.
Jun 15, 2009: Bellingham Herald: "Bellingham, Whatcom County to pay Mount Baker schools over logging"
June 15, 2009 -- Bellingham and Whatcom County leaders are ready to pay money to the Mount Baker School District to end a longstanding lawsuit challenging restrictive logging rules in the Lake Whatcom watershed.
Jun 03, 2009: Tyee: "The War Over Eco-Certified Wood"
June 3, 2009 -- When it comes to buying nature-friendly wood, two stamps of approval vie, with vast forests at stake. Which will win out? Big timber firms back the one critics call greenwashing.
Apr 17, 2009: Crosscut: "Back to the drawing board on spotted owls"
April 17, 2009 -- A new administration signals yet another deep examination about how to save forest habitats for endangered spotted owls. After decades of studies and litigation and administrative maneuvers, are we any closer to a solution?
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