BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry.

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. After spending more than two years drafting a plan to manage and protect ...

The Biden administration proposed new steps Tuesday to conserve and restore the nation’s old-growth forests ... the National Forest Service is updating its Northwest Forest Plan, which guides ...

The Biden plan tightens the approval process for ... in comparison to federally protected old-growth and mature forests. Logging jobs once powered the economies of many states but environmental ...

This includes even some mature and old-growth forests that Biden’s executive order was supposed ... In 2016, the agency drew up a regional logging plan with annual targets for each district ...

Although the Flat Country project didn’t violate the Northwest Forest Plan, a nearly 30-year-old ... Cotton says Biden’s executive order doesn’t stop agencies from cutting down old-growth forests but ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration moved on Tuesday to conserve groves of old-growth trees on national forests across the U.S. and limit logging as climate change amplifies the ...

By Lisa Friedman WASHINGTON — The Biden administration ... new logging — the United States Forest Service plan also puts an end to large scale logging of old growth timber across the forest ...

A host of prominent experts, including 135 forest scientists, had been urging Biden to protect old-growth forests since ... The Northwest Forest Plan, adopted in 1994, put a stop to timber cutting ...

Here's How President Biden launched a wide-ranging ... forests” and said “Montana’s old growth forests are already protected by each individual forest plan, so this proposal would have ...

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