Columbia Insight
'Legacy' forests. 'Restoration' logging. The new jargon of conservation is awash in ambiguity. And politics
Among enviros, government agencies and logging interests, a war of words is raging over the future of our forests
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12mDoes Wash. have enough money to protect legacy forests?
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6mHouse investigates 19 conservation groups it calls ‘radical,’ ‘extremist’
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