"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 wit

What DNR describes as the "biggest step forward for forest conservation in a generation” could devastate our state forests. Many of the...

Recent timber sales approved by DNR in Snohomish County would clearcut large portions of the Pilchuck River valley, and fragment and...

Continues to Clearcut Many of the Oldest Remaining Lowland Legacy Forests in Western Washington Existing DNR plans, policies, and...