O & C Lands

Old-growth trees provide vital wildlife habitat, help forest ecosystems and store massive amounts of carbon. But some activists in Southern Oregon claim the Bureau of Land Management is allowing the logging of old-growth trees despite recent calls by the Biden administration for protection.

Conservation groups gathered outside the Bureau of Land Management’s Springfield office Thursday morning to protest a timber sale in the Cascade foothills…

Friday the Bureau of Land Management released a menu of options for managing its public forests in Western Oregon. At stake are 2.5 million acres. They’re…

As Congress prepares to adjourn next week, still unresolved is a pair of bills with wide-reaching implications for southern and western Oregon. Over the…

Thursday the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed a new version of Oregon Senator Ron Wyden’s bill to boost logging on public forests…

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden participated in a ceremony Thursday (today) in Springfield highlighting the expansion of a new EmX bus stop. The Senator also…

Recorded on December 13, 2013Air Date: December 16, 2013O&C forestlands make up only about 13 percent of all federal forestlands in Oregon and about 8…

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has unveiled a bill to balance competing demands on more than two million acres of federal forest land in the state. So far,…

Friday, November 15, 2013Air date: Monday, November 18, 2013Debate over the definitions of prescribed uses of the O&C forestlands has been going on since…

Friday, October 25, 2013 from 12:00 to 1:30 pmAir Date: October 28, 2013Guest Speakers: Professor Jerry F. Franklin, University of Washington; and…