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The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) is a series of federal policies and guidelines governing land use on federal lands in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It covers ten million hectares within Western Oregon and Washington, as well as a small part of Northern California.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) operates eight Demonstration State Forests totaling 71,000 acres. The forests represent the most common forest types in the state. The State Forests grow approximately 75 million board feet of timber annually and harvest an average of 30 million board feet each year, enough to ...
The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (RPA) (16 U.S.C. §§ 1600 et seq.) is a United States federal law which authorizes long-range planning by the United States Forest Service to protect, develop, and enhance the productivity and other values of forest resources. [1]
“It is pretty damning that they are pulling the plug on a national mature and old-growth forest protection plan at the same time they are rolling ahead with a scheme to triple commercial logging ...
Dec. 27—Last week, the U.S. Forest Service issued a Notice of Intent to amend the Northwest Forest Plan, which encompasses 19 million acres of federal forest lands in Washington, Oregon, and ...
The plan emerged from a consensus on how logging and prescribed burning could be done. Stanislaus National Forest OKs plan to further reduce wildfire risk. What it would do
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) [3] [4] is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California.It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests.
The plan states that region is to be preserved as "open space, a small residential community, and agricultural ranching." [3] The plan was approved in 1981 and is one of the most restrictive local use programs in the state, [1] [22] and is widely regarded as one of the most restrictive documents of its kind anywhere. [2]