January 16, 2026
An Oregon federal judge has vacated a decades-old categorical exclusion the U.S. Forest Service enacted to exempt forest thinning and wildlife habitat projects from environmental reviews after it was used to allow thousands of acres of commercial logging in Fremont-Winema National Forest.
August 07, 2023
An Oregon federal judge has thrown out environmentalists' lawsuit attempting to block commercial lumbering in a national forest, ruling regulators properly determined the timber thinning projects were exempt from stringent environmental review.
July 13, 2022
The U.S. Forest Service inappropriately approved commercial logging plans on federal forests in Oregon without a thorough environmental review, environmental groups who want those approvals tossed allege in a new lawsuit.