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  • Clearcuts, landslides and flooding
    • Bellingham Herald: "Lands commissioner tours landslide areas in Whatcom County"
    • Centralia Chronicle: "Weyco’s Clear-Cut Mudslide Could Prompt New Rules"
    • KING 5 News: "Clear-cut logging may have played part in devastating floods"
    • KING 5 News: "Logging, landslides debated at forestry meeting"
    • KING 5 News: "Officials debate logging's effect on Lewis Co. flooding"
    • KUOW News: "Preliminary Results of Washington Steep-Slope Logging Study"
    • NW Public Radio: "Debate Continues Over Steep Slope Logging"
    • Seattle Times: "Weyerhaeuser agrees to review logging practices on landslide-prone lands"
    • Seattle Times: "Did development, logging set the stage for disaster?"
    • Seattle Times: "Flood victims interested in helping, being helped — not finding a scapegoat"
    • Seattle Times: "Logging and landslides: What went wrong?"
    • Seattle Times: "Mudslide photo spurs look at logging practices"
    • Seattle Times: "Risky timber practices worsened December flooding"
    • Seattle Times: "Slides putting our highways in danger"
    • Seattle Times: "Stop clear-cutting on steep slopes"
    • Seattle Times: "Weyerhaeuser, environmentalists argue logging's effect on floods"
    • The Columbian: "I-5 flood-protection study needs to weigh effect of upstream logging"
    • The Daily Astorian Editorial: "What's become of Weyerhaeuser? Why did the multinational scalp a steep hillside?"
    • The Olympian Editorial: "DNR must look at logging practices"
  • Credible Forest Certification
    • Architecture Week: "FSC Versus SFI"
    • Architecture Week: "High Tension over Big Timber"
    • Boston Globe: "Groups oppose forest certification of Weyerhaeuser and Plum Creek"
    • Daily Astorian Editorial: "Business as usual just cannot continue"
    • Daily Journal Newswire: "Wave of Litigation Over 'Greenwashing' Poised to Break"
    • Environmental Building News: "Groups Challenge Timber Companies Under SFI Rules"
    • Reuters: "USGBC Wood Policy Stands"
    • Seattle Magazine: "How Green is Thy Lumber?"
    • Seattle Times: "Group fights Weyerhaeuser's use of 'green' certification"
    • Seattle Times: "LEED green-building standards must not be diluted"
    • Seattle Times: "Homebuilders, critics disagree about what construction deserves environmental label"
    • Seattle Times: "The fight over what "green" means"
    • The Green Building Battles
    • The New York Times: "For Sustainable Wood, a New and Unloved Standard"
    • The New York Times: "Environmental Groups Spar Over Certifications of Wood and Paper Products"
    • The NewStandard: "Green-stamping of Timber Companies Comes Under Scrutiny"
    • Tyee: "The War Over Eco-Certified Wood"
    • Valley Advocate: "Who Decides What's Sustainable?"
    • Washington Post: "Two Timber Firms Pretending To Be 'Green,' Groups Allege"
  • Forestland Preservation
    • Ellensburg Daily Record: "AFLC plans open houses to answer questions"
    • Ellensburg Daily Record: "AFLC seeks longer planning delay"
    • Ellensburg Daily Record: "Documents case given to prosecutor"
    • Ellensburg Daily Record: "Planning process to resume for 57,000 acres in the Teanaway River valley"
    • Ellensburg Daily Record: "Teanaway binders available to view online"
    • Ellensburg Daily Record: "Teanaway development plan could bring legal challenges"
    • Ellensburg Daily Record: "Teanaway plan draws heated opposition"
    • Ellensburg Daily Record: "Teanaway sub-area plans on hold"
    • Ellensbury Daily Record: "Kittitas County prosecutor does not file charges in AFLC binders"
    • High Country News: "The case of the missing binders"
    • New York Times: "Loggers Try to Adapt to Greener Economy"
    • Seattle Times: "Protecting Washington's high-value forest and agriculture lands"
    • Seattle Times: "New strategy to save forests: logging"
    • The Oregonian: "Conservation groups hope to buy forestlands to manage"
    • The Oregonian: "When the land's worth more than the trees"
  • Northern Spotted Owl
    • "Shuttle diplomacy" defended
    • Audubon Magazine: "Owl War II"
    • Best-laid plans can't foresee all - Spotted owl is in decline and another bird may be at fault
    • Clash of cousins: Spotted owl, barred owl talks take flight at HSU
    • Coming Soon: Return of the Owl?
    • Crosscut: "Back to the drawing board on spotted owls"
    • Crosscut: "Spotted owls get a hand from Obama, but is it enough?"
    • Deal gets owls 87,000 acres
    • Details scant on federal plan for spotted owl
    • DNR official cut deal with timber on owls
    • E&E News: "Rhetoric softens, but disagreements persist over northern spotted owl"
    • Editorial: Protect environment and wildlife
    • Feds to Do Own Spotted Owl Recovery Plan
    • Government has failed to protect northern spotted owl, suit says
    • Green-stamping’ of Timber Companies Comes Under Scrutiny
    • Group wants logging ban to protect owl
    • Groups oppose forest certification of Weyerhaeuser and Plum Creek
    • New Spotted Owl Rescue Bid Gets Under Way
    • OPB: "Spotted Owl Surviving 20 Years After Controversial Decision"
    • PBS NewsHour: "Biologists Struggle to Save the Spotted Owl"
    • Rules are adopted to protect spotted owl here
    • Scientists watching spotted owls where barred owl invaders killed
    • Seattle P-I: "Bush administration wants cut in protection for spotted owl"
    • Seattle P-I: "Bush Administration: Too cozy by half"
    • Seattle P-I: "Weyerhaeuser got to edit U.S. letter on logging, owls"
    • Seattle P-I: "Weyerhaeuser ordered not to log owl habitat"
    • Seattle PI: "Northern spotted owl lawsuit settled"
    • Seattle Times: "As spotted owl's numbers keep falling, some fear it's doomed"
    • Seattle Times: "Federal judge orders revised spotted-owl plan"
    • Seattle Times: "Groups challenge plan for spotted-owl recovery"
    • Seattle Times: "New NW spotted owl plan out; rival bird targeted"
    • Seattle Times: "NW spotted owl recovery plan due by end of week"
    • Seattle Times: "Draft owl plan 'deeply flawed,' panel says"
    • Seattle Times: "Judge blocks logging of privately owned spotted owl habitat"
    • Seattle Times: "Obama administration wants new spotted-owl plan"
    • Seattle Times: "Owl ruling halts logging on 56,000 acres of private land"
    • Seattle Times: "Study finds no increased fire threat in owl habitat"
    • Seattle Times: "Wash. tree farm strikes habitat deal"
    • Species spiraling into extinction
    • Spotted owl debate renewed
    • Spotted owl is on a dangerous decline
    • Spotted owl or red herring?
    • The New York Times: "The Owl and the Forest"
    • The Oregonian: "Judge orders government to revise plan to protect Pacific Northwest's northern spotted owls"
    • The Oregonian: "Spotted owl recovery plan recommends preserving old forests"
    • The Oregonian: "Shooting one owl to save another"
    • The Tacoma News Tribune: "Allegations intensify about owl plan"
    • Tighter review of owl habitat rejected
    • With spotted owl count falling, lawsuit is planned
  • Salmon Recovery
    • Oregon
    • Washington
  • Softwood Lumber Agreement
    • Investigate West: "Northwest reps in Congress call for investigation into timber 'slush fund'"
    • Law360: "USTR Mishandled Green Groups' FOIA Request"
    • NPR: "Suit Targets Payout from Canadian Lumber Deal”
    • Seattle PI: "Environmentalists sue over Canadian timber agreement"
    • Seattle PI: "Seattle judge dismisses suit over lumber payments"
    • Seattle PI: "Forestry groups queried on U.S. funds"
    • Seattle PI: "How $1 billion timber deal affected consumers"
    • Seattle PI: "Shady Bush deal could see light of day"
    • Seattle PI: "The $1 Billion Timber Payday: Who Took A Cut?"
    • Seattle Times: "Conservation groups file suit in Seattle over timber-settlement funds"
    • Tyee: "Group sues to find out how recipients of softwood deal's $450 million were chosen"
  • Washington State-Owned Forests
    • Bellingham Herald: "As step toward ending lawsuit, Bellingham pays Mount Baker School District $225,000"
    • Bellingham Herald: "Bellingham, Whatcom County to pay Mount Baker schools over logging"
    • Crosscut: "Disaster leads to chance for giant park in Whatcom County"
    • Daily World: "State board stalls four timber sales over murrelet"
    • NW Public Radio: "Rock Bottom Timber Prices Hurt NW School Budgets"
    • Seattle PI: "DNR seeks green star for logging"
    • Seattle Times: "State will seek "green" OK for logging on some forests"
    • Seattle Times: "What's good for state's forests is certifiably good for everyone"
    • Sustainable Harvest Calculation
• Our Work
  • Addressing Cumulative Effects
  • Advocating for the Preservation of Forestlands
  • Assisting Small Forest Landowners
  • Challenging the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement
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  • Promoting Real Salmon Recovery
    • Promoting Real Salmon Recovery
    • Taking steps to protect public safety and natural resources from steep slope logging
  • Protecting and Recovering the NSO
  • Supporting Credible Forest Certification
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