The DNR's Peninsula 2 Land Exchange threatens to transfer the last remaining lowland legacy forest in the Pysht River Watershed to a timber company Towering Sitka spruce in Pysht River legacy forest, Photo by Scott McGee / Forest 2 Sea Photography. See more. On September 1, the Washington State Board of Natural Resources is scheduled to vote on the proposed Peninsula 2 Land Exchange. Under this proposal, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) would exchange 2,105.78 acres

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to transfer 115,200 acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest to corporations. We have alarming news. H.R. 41, known as the "landless bill," was just passed out of the U.S. House of Representatives by unanimous consent. This legislation would transfer 115,000 acres of public land into private ownership, including 80,000 acres of ancient forests containing trees up to 10 feet in diameter and more than 1,000 years old. 60,000

The bill targets 115,000 acres of publicly owned national forest land, including roughly 80,000 acres of old-growth forests and 60,000 acres of roadless areas, spread across more than 100 cherry-picked parcels in Southeast Alaska. These parcels include thousands of acres of ancient trees in intact watersheds that have never been industrially logged.

If you thought clearcuts were bad, imagine spraying them from above with toxic chemicals. That’s exactly what the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) does when it turns biodiverse native forests into homogenous tree farms. This week, the department quietly released Forest Practices Applications (FPAs) for seven aerial pesticide treatments across southwestern Washington. According to the documents, DNR plans to cover a total of 2,257 acres with glyphosate a