Wed, Oct 28
|Zoom Webinar
Federal Forest Webinar – Defending the Northwest Forest Plan (Part 2)
LFDC's monthly update on Federal lands. Join us two part in our webinar series looking at the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) and the amendment process quietly developing. Part two will look at what is and isn't working with the Plan and what's at risk with the amendment process currently underway.
Time & Location
Oct 28, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Zoom Webinar
About the event
The Nothwest Forest Plan (NWFP) has been doing the hard work of trying to keep our region's National Forest managers focused on restoring mature and old-growth forest ecosystems in western Washington, Oregon and northern California lost during the intensive logging of virgin forests over the last 200 years. It was the response to a system of 'forest management' based on the premise the mature and old growth forests were wasteful––biodiversity deserts with little new growth contributing little to ecology or society. An idea we now know to couldn't be further from the truth.
Join us to learn why the NWFP came about and what it does to protect mature, old-growth and legacy forests and the plant and animal species that depend on them. We'll look into how the Plan is coming up short (including climate adaptation and Tribal consultation), the amendment process underway and our concerns that the increasingly politically…