<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Legacy Forest Defense Coalition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Legacy Forest Defense Coalition is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving publicly owned legacy forests of Western Washington.]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:15:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.wlfdc.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[DNR Plan Would Devastate Legacy Forests in the Nooksack Valley]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Secretariat timber sale encompasses a 110-plus-year-old wonderland of towering Douglas-fir and cedar trees, including multiple eagle nests. The North Fork Start Up sale targets a spectacularly diverse, maple- and cedar-dominated forest that contains multiple ancient cedar trees that survived the logging of the ]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/dnr-plan-would-devastate-legacy-forests-in-the-nooksack-valley</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a89c6a4fe6fd82d1504ab81</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:59:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9a8e40_850f9fd926e741e0add250819d85355f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The DNR's Peninsula 2 Land Exchange threatens lowland legacy forest ]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 of publicly...]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/tell-bnr-don-t-give-away-this-legacy-forest</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a69334ceb310bed118917fd</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:56:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/75cf85_3c8bb49aa79c48618e3c14b00900257e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act Now to Prevent Tongass National Forest Privatization!]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 acres of these...]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/act-now-to-prevent-tongass-national-forest-privatization</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3192a6a3667807a657ec8e</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:24:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/75cf85_5392e123feed4f58a97500dbeab39bbd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch Land Less Today: A new film exposing the biggest old growth logging bill in a decade.]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/watch-land-less-today-a-new-film-exposing-the-biggest-old-growth-logging-bill-in-a-decade</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69eb7f5268a38bf40d10c495</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:40:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/75cf85_5b05bafd80014676bec0ecd7b95417bb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNR Plans Aerial Spray of Carcinogenic Chemicals across 2,200+ Acres in Southwestern Washington]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 and other...]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/dnr-plans-aerial-spray-of-carcinogenic-chemicals-across-2-200-acres-in-southwestern-washington</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e14565441ae2d5fdf2658d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:48:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/75cf85_d77e6557b6764b0c8b2a9fca26e4279f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNR Considers Logging Rare Elwha Forest, Despite Policy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last spring, our staff identified a globally imperiled ecosystem within the boundaries of the highly controversial Parched timber sale in the Elwha watershed. Our discovery halted active road building and forced DNR to send Natural Heritage Program staff to the site to assess our findings. In the fall, DNR sent us the results of that assessment .   The DNR’s Natural Heritage Program agreed with our findings, identifying a large Element Occurrence (EO) of a globally imperiled ecosystem...]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/dnr-considers-logging-rare-elwha-forest-despite-policy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">699c99c10ce516214dc38c82</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:18:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/75cf85_18240ed23fd14c1fb54667fe6fc3d928~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Board Rejects Atonal Timber Sale... for Now]]></title><description><![CDATA["Today I am proud to sign a commissioners order to preserve 77,000 acres of structurally complex forests across western Washington including every acre of our older forests .” Those were Commissioner Upthegrove’s words at his August 26 press conference . Many Washingtonians heard this as a commitment to protect every acre of our remaining legacy forests. However, DNR’s definition of “older forests” is based on a very narrow set of arbitrary criteria that have little to do with its history, or...]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/board-rejects-atonal-timber-sale-for-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">691fea9a35662176f69a2644</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:32:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4603c1_cd3e3709915344b083792362bcae7f7f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNR Resumes Plans to Log 29,000 Acres of Legacy Forests in WA]]></title><description><![CDATA[What DNR describes as the "biggest step forward for forest conservation in a generation” could devastate our state forests. Many of the...]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/dnr-resumes-plans-to-log-29-000-acres-of-legacy-forests-in-wa</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68b13652035364d38b2dac90</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:00:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9a8e40_b30e0f85503c44eb869c50e5b0f825ab~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Lawsuits Filed in Snohomish County]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recent timber sales approved by DNR in Snohomish County would clearcut large portions of the Pilchuck River valley, and fragment and...]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/new-lawsuits-filed-in-snohomish-county</link><guid isPermaLink="false">668f25a1999a92c56909a1bf</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:29:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4603c1_dfa53eab2a0a40ef99901a724a95b72d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_843,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNR Ignores its Own Policy Commitments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Continues to Clearcut Many of the Oldest Remaining Lowland Legacy Forests in Western Washington Existing DNR plans, policies, and...]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/dnr-ignores-its-own-policy-commitments</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65cad08ab1096f29fd4edd7b</guid><category><![CDATA[General Discussion]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 02:17:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4603c1_41948c54189e4e2fbe8fe31058d25b1e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery of Rare Plant Communities in the Tahuya Headwaters Legacy Forest]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Tahuya Headwaters Legacy Forest Complex, located in the headwaters at the Tahuya River in Green Mountain State Forest, hosts the...]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/discovery-of-rare-ecosystems-in-tahuya-headwaters-legacy-forest</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65c3f63f332f7131d89c9a59</guid><category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:42:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/75cf85_735be6e20c7b453aa48dee1a10b72c71~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Work Group Charts Future of State Forestlands]]></title><description><![CDATA[The state legislature passed a proviso last year, as part of the 2023-2025 biennial budget, that requires DNR to develop a new strategy...]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/new-work-group-charts-future-of-state-forestlands</link><guid isPermaLink="false">659dfbf3690dda65231d1a9e</guid><category><![CDATA[General Discussion]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 02:25:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4603c1_848122bcf28646049ba2cbbe5cfd157a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Are Taking DNR Back to Court]]></title><description><![CDATA[DNR made a commitment in 1997 to restore old growth forests across 10-15% of state forestlands in Western Washington.  This commitment is...]]></description><link>https://www.wlfdc.org/post/we-are-taking-dnr-back-to-court</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6580ee715d76b432ec18ae4e</guid><category><![CDATA[General Discussion]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 01:15:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4603c1_06312969448843f58ec8ef2f373f5b17~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Legacy Forest Defense Coalition</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>