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Timber Policy: Some environmental groups say they want to work with private owners to head off sales of forestland. Click below to view or download the article:

The North American Salmon Stronghold Partnership is a new initiative, launched in 2008, with formal endorsement of nine Salmon Strongholds. The intent of this Strategic Plan is to provide short-term guidance to support the institutionalization of the Stronghold Partnership, consistent with the long-term vision and Mission of the Partnership.

Report quantifies the human benefits of healthy salmon ecosystems.

Resurrection of one of the West Coast’s great salmon rivers leapt ahead this week with a tentative deal to remove four Klamath River dams blocking fish from their richest habitat in southern Oregon.

Plentiful timber, rich wildlife habitat, diverse recreation opportunities — a new management plan adopted seven years ago for the Tillamook and Clatsop state forests promised it all. But it hasn’t worked. The latest evidence: Calculations by the state show it has been logging more trees than the state forests can sustain under the 2001 strategy that also set ambitious goals for improving fish and wildlife habitat.

Presented by R. W. Charmichael, North American Salmon Stronghold Partnership.

About one-quarter of the world’s population of sockeye salmon is threatened with extinction and most of those endangered stocks are in British Columbia, according to a new global assessment released yesterday.

Full text of the final legislation.

Full text of the bill introduced by Senator Maria Cantwell.