ForestsAndFish.com | Private Forest Landowners are Making a Difference | Road Improvements Search Results The Forests & Fish Law requires that all state and private forest roads be brought up to new forest roads standards by 2021 through Road Maintenance and Abandonment Plans (RMAPs). The new standards address all aspects… Read more

A new study shows that modern logging in the Oregon Coast Range, under the auspices of the Oregon Forest Practices Act, had no negative impact on cutthroat trout and coho salmon. In fact, the study showed that the number of cutthroat trout actually went up in the harvested area, compared to… Read more

By Jason Callahan Jason Callahan is the Director of Governmental Relations for the Washington Forest Protection Association. At the nexus of private enterprise and public resources, headlines are usually made when private landowners or businesses clash with the government over regulatory protection of endangered species. However, the everyday reality is… Read more

It may not have been the comprehensive legislation that some forestry leaders wanted, but Congress last week finally approved significant federal timber reform. It’s been five years since a bill was first introduced to end the practice of “fire borrowing,” in which the U.S. Forest Service raids its own budget… Read more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 16, 2018 Contact: Cindy Mitchell, 360-791-9372 OLYMPIA – Rural communities and forest landowners received a big boost from the Washington Legislature this session with the passage of legislation that will lead to an increase in the use of mass timber products in commercial and residential… Read more

By Jason Callahan Jason Callahan is the Director of Governmental Relations for the Washington Forest Protection Association. Missing from the headlines of the 2018 legislative session was passage of a bill that establishes a price on carbon. The carbon tax bill ultimately fell short. However, two senators should be applauded… Read more