Oregon

· Tillamook Headlight Herald: "Judge: Logging roads pollute"

August 24, 2010 -- Local timber interests are bracing for the potential impact of a court ruling that dirt, rock and sand runoff from logging roads is a form of pollution requiring a permit under the Clean Water Act.

· Seattle Times: "Appeals court: mud from logging roads is pollution"

August 17, 2010 -- A federal appeals court Tuesday decided that mud washing off logging roads is pollution and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to write regulations to reduce the amount that reaches salmon streams.

· OPB: "Logging Road Runoff Decision Could Have Big Implications in NW"

August 17, 2010 -- Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that rainwater channeled by logging roads into rivers and streams is pollution and can be regulated under the Clean Water Act.

· The Oregonian: "Oregon held to account for failing to protect coastal waterways"

January 15, 2010 -- Oregon doesn't do enough to protect its coastal waterways from the harmful effects of logging, and that could end up costing the state millions in withheld federal dollars.

· The World: "Timber plan divides Oregon North Coast residents"

January 30, 2010 -- A proposal to cut more timber on the Clatsop and Tillamook state forests has divided North Coast residents.

· Suit to attack logging roads' dirty water

Coast Range - An environmental group alleges polluted runoff is streaming into the Trask, Kilchis rivers. A Portland legal group known for making polluters clean up their acts is taking aim at logging roads in the Coast Range that it says funnel chocolate-brown water into prime salmon rivers with every heavy rain.

· Effect of logging incident on city's drinking water spotlights forest rules

January 28, 2007, Statesman Journal; No laws were violated, but logging near headwaters of creek forced Falls City to close its drinking-water intake