Forests

The Northwest’s Eastside Forests Are Sick, Scientists Look For Ways To Restore Them

Anna King — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:18:56 +0000

This week fire crews declared the Taylor Bridge fire 100-percent contained. Now that the massive blaze in central Washington is controlled forest scientists say Northwest residents should brace for more large fires like this. Munching insects, parasitic plants and global climate change are part of the problem. Correspondent Anna King reports from the field with one of Washington’s top forest managers.

Changes In Forests Increase Fire Risks, Insect Outbreaks

Courtney Flatt — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:36:34 +0000

The Pacific Northwest’s inland forests have dramatically changed over the past 100 years. That’s according to a new study by a conservation group. These changes can lead to larger fires and insect outbreaks.

DeFazio and Walden Appear in Grants Pass to Promote Timber Trust Bill

Sueann Ramella — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:59:00 +0000

GRANT'S PASS, Ore. – Oregon Congressmen Peter DeFazio and Greg Walden appeared together in Grants Pass Thursday. They were pushing their proposal to open up some public forests to logging. Amelia Templeton reports they were tight lipped about the details.

Environmentalists Challenge Logging Plans Over Threatened Murrelet

Rob Manning — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:11:19 +0000

EUGENE, OREGON - Three environmental groups intend to take Oregon's Department of Forestry to court over the effect logging has on a threatened seabird.

BLM Proposes Logging More Selectively, Replanting Fewer Trees

Reed Michaelsen — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:29:19 +0000

What happens if a timber harvest is a little more like a fire or windstorm that leaves patches of trees behind? And what happens if you don’t replant trees after logging? That’s what the Bureau of Land Management is proposing for a series of experimental timber sales in Southern Oregon. Amelia Templeton reports.

Climb into the hills east of Roseburg Oregon, and you’ll find patches of old growth forest—and a lot of old clear-cuts.

Mount St. Helens Yields Ecological Lessons With Wider Applicability

Tue, 11 May 2010 18:48:00 +0000

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. –Where were you on May 18, 1980? The massive eruption of Mount St. Helens that day is one of those seminal events on par with 9/11 or the JFK assassination. Hard to believe it's been thirty years. The blast zone is once again teeming with life. Even scientists are amazed. Correspondent Tom Banse has more on the wider lessons ecologists draw on this anniversary.

“I can hear the mountain behind me rumbling. An enormous mud and water slide washed out the road...”