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LFDC in the News

Featured in publications ranging from The Seattle Times to The Washington Post, the Legacy Forest Defense Coalition continues to make headlines and raise public awareness for our most at-risk native forests.

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2026-09-08

Nooksack River Valley forests at risk as DNR plans timber sales, activists say

The Bellingham Herald

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2026-07-29

Murkowski’s ‘landless’ bill advances to US Senate floor

Juneau Independent

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2026-06-05

Environmental groups sue to stop 400 acres of logging in WA’s Elwha Watershed

Washington State Standard

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2026-05-13

Is the Alaska "Landless Bill" Land Back or Land Grab?! With Wanda Culp and Joshua Wright

Coast Range Radio

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2026-01-03

Target on Tongass: The wildest national forest may soon lose its protections

Seattle Time Pacific NW Magazine

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2025-11-20

Logging projects still imperiling endangered western gray squirrels

Columbia Insight

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2025-10-30

Wash. says it will save 77,000 acres from logging. Enviros question the details

Columbia Insight

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2025-09-23

Washington moves to conserve its state forests

High Country News

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2025-08-28

Many older forests spared by Washington state order. Others to be logged

KUOW

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2025-08-26

WA to conserve 77,000 acres of older forests on state lands

Washington State Standard

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2025-08-26

WA to conserve thousands of acres of ‘legacy forests’

The Seattle Times

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2025-07-06

Forest Protectors Launch Tree Sit and Lawsuits to Stop Ecocidal Logging in WA

Truthout

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2025-06-28

A logging protest in the treetops ends in terror, activists say

The Washington Post

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2025-04-17

Is Washington DNR using big money to squash lawsuits?

Columbia Insight

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2025-02-21

Activists answer call to protect forests

Peninsula Daily News

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2024-12-16

New state policy could affect timber sales in Snohomish County

The Everett Herald

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2024-10-13

FOREST FEUD: WA’s fight over the old growth of tomorrow

The Seattle Times

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2024-09-12

Washington has few older forests left. Why does DNR keep logging them?

Columbia Insight

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2024-06-01

After Oso slide, with old growth in peril, timber sales go under microscope

The Everett Herald

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2024-04-11

Should Washington state consider climate impacts when it approves timber sales?

KUOW

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2024-02-08

County sues state to stop timber sale in Capitol State Forest

JOLT

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2023-07-26

To speak for trees, Snohomish County activists arm themselves with data

The Everett Herald

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2023-02-23

WA auctions off more ‘old’ forest in $2.8 million sale

The Seattle Times

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