Wild Olympics report shows no impact to current timber jobs
A new report, commissioned by the Wild Olympics campaign and researched by Stewardship Forestry, focuses on the impact of the Wild Olympics Plan on the Olympic National Forest timber supply. Over the past 3 years, the report shows that the plan has been adjusted and...
Wild Olympics for Our Future
Wild Olympics Campaign Video highlighting the community effort and broad local public support for new Wilderness and Wild & Scenic Rivers on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. The video showcases the special places, stunning scenery, ancient forests and free-flowing...
New Study of Wild Olympics Shows No Impact to Timber Jobs
QUILCENE, WA – Stewardship Forestry, an independent forestry consultant, released a study today on the impact of the Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (H.R. 5995/ S.3329) on the Olympic National Forest (ONF) timber supply. The question of what...
Fishing Support Rolls In for Wild Olympics
Quilcene, WA - Local elected officials, hunting and fishing organizations, and area businesses sent a series of letters to Senator Murray and Congressman Dicks this week supporting their legislation to designate additional wilderness and wild and scenic rivers on the...
Local Support Rolls In For Wild Olympics
QUILCENE, WA - Dozens of Olympic Peninsula and south-Puget Sound mayors, city council members, county commissioners, state legislators, businesses and sportsmen groups are the latest to endorse the Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act introduced...
Port Angeles council hears about Wild Olympics proposal
PORT ANGELES - The City Council will consider taking a stand on congressional legislation that would designate 14 percent of Olympic National Forest as newly designated wilderness - and off-limits to logging. The six council members decided Tuesday to take up the...
6th District candidates stake out different ground on Wild Olympics
Congressional candidates Derek Kilmer and Bill Driscoll both say that timber harvest levels in the Olympic National Forest need to increase, but they differ in their approach to recent legislation that would expand wilderness designations and put areas around the...
Chapman, Roth debate wilderness plan
SEQUIM - Clallam County Commissioner Mike Chapman issued a public apology this week for the way in which the board of commissioners supported an early version of the proposed Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2012. Chapman, 48, an independent...
Chances dim in Congress for 'Wild Olympics' bill this year
PORT ANGELES - Chances are dimming that legislation aimed at designating 198 square miles of Olympic National Forest as wilderness - and thus off-limits to logging - will be considered by Congress this year. The legislation, which also would protect 19 rivers by...
WILDERNESS: Support wild and scenic designations
Bill Ruckelshaus and Martha Kongsgaard made a strong case that wilderness designation for certain critical lands around Puget Sound is an important and necessary step to safeguard the health of the Sound (Viewpoint, 9-26). I absolutely agree. When we safeguard Puget...