Trump logging plan sparks nationwide lawsuits over old-growth forests

Federal efforts to expand logging on public lands are drawing sustained legal scrutiny across the United States, as new timber directives intersect with longstanding environmental regulations and decades of forest-management policy. In western Oregon, recent harvests illustrate how current policies are reshaping landscapes. Large portions of Galagher Canyon—one of the Bureau of Land Management’s timber sale areas south of Eugene—were cleared earlier this year, removing thousands of Douglas fir trees that formed part of a mature forest dating back more than a century. Adjacent tracts that have never been logged, including stands dominated by long ...