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Woody Debris Utilization
Publication by Ecotrust and Resource Innovations
Can the vision of healthy forests and healthy communities bring together traditional adversaries? This publication tells a story of collaboration that moves beyond the tales of the 90's era timber wars by sharing how four groups across the Pacific Northwest are acting on recent federal stewardship contracting authorities to help manage National Forest lands for watershed and community health... [Read more]
This website is a resource for entities interested in woody biomass utlizatoin and to facilitate the work of the Federal interagency woody biomass utilization group (Woody BUG), a working group of technical specialists representint federal agencies whose missions relate to the goal of encouraging the use of woody biomass. [Read more...]
Why are some forest fires so intense?
PDF publication by Oregon Forest Resources Institute
Nearly 40 percent of Oregon's forestland is classified as Class 3 or at high risk of uncharacteristically intense fire because of dense, unnaturally overcrowded and dying trees. Another 45 percent is in Class 2, or at moderate risk...[Read more]
The beginning of the end of Oregon's timber wars
By The Oregonian Editorial Board, December 16, 2009
At last, after all this time, all the lawsuits, bitter enemies in the longest-running environmental dispute in Oregon have found common ground on how to manage the dry forests east of the Cascades...They all agree that larger older trees should be off limits and that there are already more than enough permanent roads crisscrossing public forests... [Read more]
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