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Defending Science-Based Forest Management in Oregon<\/h1>\n

The Western Oregon Plan Revisions, known by the acronym WOPR and pronounced \u201cwhopper,\u201d has been controversial since 2003, when the second Bush administration settled a long dormant timber industry lawsuit with the promise to issue a new plan that dramatically increased logging.<\/p>\n

Issued in late December 2008, WOPR quadrupled old-growth forest logging<\/strong> and eliminated or substantially reduced all wildlife reserves, including the streamside buffers and key watersheds that are integral parts of the Northwest Forest Plan’s salmon and clean water protections, on about 2.6 million acres of federal public forests in Oregon managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), known as O&C Lands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WELC challenged\u00a0the Bureau of Land Management for its failure to disclose environmental impacts, and its failure to comply with procedures protecting threatened and endangered species. In March 2012, we won our challenge. The appellate court\u2019s decision, the first to addresses the substance of WOPR, invalidated the management plan on the grounds that \u2013 as lawyers for the federal government admitted \u2013 it illegally ignored requirements designed to protect endangered species and their forest habitat.<\/p>\n

In August of 2016, BLM finalized a new\u00a0plan, collectively known as the Resource Management Plans for Western Oregon<\/a>, which eliminates protections for streamside forests, increases clearcutting, and effectively removes 2.6 million acres of federally managed public forests from the requirements of the Northwest Forest Plan.<\/p>\n

We aim to prove\u00a0that BLM’s new resource management plans\u00a0violate the Oregon and California Lands Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and Administrative Procedure Act, and therefore fail to support multiple uses of Oregon forests managed by the BLM.<\/p>\n

The BLM plan cuts corners scientifically and legally, and comes with a laundry list of negative environmental effects, including:<\/p>\n