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A coalition of environmental groups and regional activists are attempting to stop the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from allowing old growth trees to be logged in southern Oregon by waging a complaint in court and sitting in trees slated to be cut.

Environmentalists say the feds' plan to restore two areas burned in fires in 2020 and 2021 will put nearby wildlife and threatened species at serious risk.

Three organizations are suing the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest for failing to fully consider how a large logging and burning project might affect grizzly bears and Canada lynx.

Jim Harmon writes, "My hope in sharing this story is to encourage all of you to document your family’s stories before those stories are lost to time."

Jim Elliott writes, "Barney, the logger-son met me on the place and handed me a beer. Not a bad beginning, I thought, as I looked out on acres and acres of stumps, ruts, and scraggly trees."

Michael Garrity writes, "The sheer size, the fact that the logging, burning, and road-building are going to continue over many years, and the fact that the Forest Service completely ignored how all of this will affect our rapidly changing climatic conditions all add up to one very bad project."

The state Department of Natural Resources will purchase about 9,000 acres of forestland in southwest Washington to generate revenue from logging.

Water shortages in Oregon coastal cities could be prevented if clear-cutting forests around watersheds was eliminated, according to environmentalists.

The conference is sponsored by some of the largest timber and real estate holding companies in the world, including Weyerhaeuser, and will be attended by officials from large banks such as J.P Morgan as well as international conservation and land trust groups, such as The Nature Conservancy and Pacific Forest Trust.

Mike Garrity writes, "Biden’s climate pledges are meaningless unless his Forest Service ceases its ever-increasing and illegal logging."