Reeder, left, and Madeline Cowen, an organizer with the environmental group Cascadia Wildlands, measure an old-growth tree in the Yellow Creek area.
Leah Nash, special to ProPublica
On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to protect mature and old growth forests on federal lands.
But more than two years later, these forests were still being cut under the Biden administration’s watch. Nearly the same amount as they were under Trump, who will take office again next year and could undo some of his predecessor’s climate policies.
Today, we’re talking about how logging has continued in western Oregon — the heart of the nation’s remaining old-growth forests. OPB’s April Ehrlich and ProPublica’s McKenzie Funk investigated and followed the course of one controversial timber sale in Southern Oregon.
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