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Seattle Times: "Conservation groups file suit in Seattle over timber-settlement funds"

Three conservation groups are suing the federal government over a decision to give millions of dollars to forestry foundations, saying the money illegally bypassed the U.S. Treasury and Congress.

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Sep 12, 2008

Seattle PI: "Environmentalists sue over Canadian timber agreement"

Environmentalists are filing a lawsuit this week against the federal government for what they say was an illegal and unfair agreement with Canadian leaders to settle a dispute over timber sales.

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Sep 08, 2008

Seattle Times: "As spotted owl's numbers keep falling, some fear it's doomed"

The northern spotted owl — an endangered icon that spurred a rescue effort so sweeping it brought old-growth logging to a virtual standstill in the Northwest — is now closer than ever to extinction.

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Aug 13, 2008

Seattle Times: "Slides putting our highways in danger"

The state Department of Natural Resources (DNR), which enforces forestry rules, can restrict clear-cutting when geological reviews indicate landslides could put public safety or public resources at risk. But near Highway 6 and other roadside logging sites, state foresters often have opted to skip these reviews when approving logging permits.

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Jul 14, 2008

Seattle Times: "Logging and landslides: What went wrong?"

With little scrutiny from state geologists, Weyerhaeuser has been allowed to clear-cut unstable slopes. When December's storms hit, many of these heavily logged mountains gave way to hundreds of landslides.

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Jul 13, 2008

Seattle PI: "Forestry groups queried on U.S. funds"

P-I Reporter A controversial Bush administration deal that funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to groups friendly with the timber industry drew inquiries this week from two U.S. senators, who demanded to know what's being done with the money to help the environment.

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Jul 10, 2008

Centralia Chronicle: "Weyco’s Clear-Cut Mudslide Could Prompt New Rules"

Representatives from Weyerhaeuser, the state Department of Natural Resources and the University of Washington share information about the Stillman Creek landslide during a Forest Practices Board tour of the West Lewis County Weyerhaeuser property on Tuesday, June 10, 2008

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Jun 11, 2008

KING 5 News: "Logging, landslides debated at forestry meeting"

State forestry officials took a field trip Tuesday to examine the relationship between clear-cut logging and last year's Lewis County floods. Their trip took them to a Weyerhaeuser tree farm above the flood lands, where Weyerhaeuser and State Natural Resources officials explained to the State Forest Practices Board the way they assess areas to be logged.

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Jun 10, 2008

NW Public Radio: "Debate Continues Over Steep Slope Logging"

Listen to Austin Jenkins' report on a tour of the site of the December Stillman Creek mudslide.

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Jun 10, 2008

Tyee: "Group sues to find out how recipients of softwood deal's $450 million were chosen"

The Softwood Lumber Agreement earmarked $550 million for the Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports and the Bi-national Council, but it also said $450 million would be spent on "meritorious initiatives" to be identified later by the U.S. in consultation with Canada. How were the recipients of the meritorious initiatives chosen?

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Jun 05, 2008

Seattle PI: "How $1 billion timber deal affected consumers"

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: May 01, 2008

NPR: "Suit Targets Payout from Canadian Lumber Deal”

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Apr 30, 2008

Seattle PI: "The $1 Billion Timber Payday: Who Took A Cut?"

Is it an illegal $1 billion slush fund for Bush administration friends in the timber industry, extorted from Canada and designed to evade congressional oversight? Or is it a fairly negotiated end to an expensive trade war that's "the best thing that has happened to private forest land conservation in the United States in 100 years?" It depends on your point of view. Now, a federal lawsuit filed in Seattle is bringing more scrutiny to the controversial deal. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., is spearheading a Senate effort to get more information about who got the money and what they're doing with it.

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Apr 29, 2008

Seattle Times: "Draft owl plan 'deeply flawed,' panel says"

A panel of experts found the Bush administration's plan for assuring the survival of the northern spotted owl was "deeply flawed" in its approach to protecting old-growth-forest habitat from logging and was not entirely based on the best available science.

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Apr 22, 2008

Seattle Times: "The fight over what "green" means"

It was the People's Choice and Best in Show in the 2007 Street of Dreams, the Best in American Living for 2007, according to the National Association of Home Builders, and the first home in Snohomish County to earn a five-star rating as a Built Green home. But with 4,750 square feet, a four-car garage and a location in a rural area where subdivisions aren't supposed to sprawl, was it really green?

  • Posted by tkaps
  • Published: Mar 12, 2008
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