Wed, Sep 30
|Zoom Webinar
Federal Forest Webinar – Defending the Northwest Forest Plan (Part 1)
LFDC's monthly update on Federal lands. Join us for the first in a two part webinar looking at the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) and the amendment process quietly developing. Part one will look at what led up to the creation of the NWFP and how it protects old-growth and legacy forest in our region.
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Zoom Webinar
Guests
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 back at the destruction and conflict that eventually led to a groundbreaking new management tool design to approach forest stewardship on a regional scale not…