The idiot Oregon rednecks tried to secede and join Idaho has gotten a bunch of play all of a sudden, first with a CNN piece and now from the Times..
As many of you know, I grew up around the controversy around the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest and what that meant for the timber industry. My dad.
Northwestern timber interests remain bitter about the protection of the northern spotted owl. It's all pretty ridiculous. Not only is there only tiny pockets of unprotected old growth timber left,.
Many of you have not been fortunate enough to live in the Pacific Northwest. If you grew up there like I did, one thing you are very familiar with is.
In the West, legal decisions to protect animals instead of allowing for the unregulated exploitation of the natural world continue to outrage already profitable industries. Never mind that the protection.
Bill Clinton enacted the Northwest Forest Plan in 1993. This marked the logical ending point for the Northwest Timber Wars between environmentalists and the timber industry that had riven the.
There's a lot of weird wildlife management going on in the Pacific Northwest. First, you have the killing of barred owls in order to save spotted owls. The barred owls.
If there's one thing in this world I follow more closely than any other, it's the politics surrounding forestry in the Pacific Northwest. So I found this Michael Donnelly essay.
