Public invited to comment on plan to possibly triple logging in eastern Oregon national forests

Public invited to comment on plan to possibly triple logging in eastern Oregon national forests

A Ponderosa pine stand in the Malheur National Forest of eastern Oregon. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service) Officials at the U.S. Forest Service are proposing new management plans for eastern Oregon’s Blue Mountains that include potentially tripling the amount of logging across 5.5 million acres in the next decade. The Forest Service published a draft of proposed changes to the 35-year-old Blue Mountain Forest Plan last week. It would a…