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Environmentalists push for stronger old-growth protections in Northwest Forest Plan
Environmental activists held a rally outside the Forest Service office to push for stronger protections for old-growth ecosystems in the amendments.
Proposed Eugene fuel transfer facility faces backlash from local group
An energy company wants to transfer fuel from trains to trucks in Eugene’s Trainsong neighborhood, but some community members there are concerned about the risk of an environmental disaster.

Environmental group offers tourists bird’s-eye view on Northwest conservation issues
A conservation group is helping people see a different perspective of the Snake River dams in southeastern Washington.

Environmental arsonist fled the country in 2005 to avoid lengthy prison sentence — it worked
Joseph Dibee, former international fugitive and supporter of the Earth Liberation and the Animal Liberation Fronts, got a shorter sentence than his co-defendants, raising questions about how the federal government prosecutes what it considers acts of domestic terrorism

How We Adapt: Climate Change on the West Coast
Join us for a conversation July 29 with Marketplace's Molly Wood and West Coast reporters.

The many lives of Joseph Dibee
The plot to burn down a Redmond slaughterhouse in 1997 sheds a light on our evolving conceptions of terrorism, including political views of last summer's Portland protests.

The many lives of Joseph Dibee
The plort to burn down a Redmond slaughterhouse in 1997 sheds a light on our evolving conceptions of terrorism, including political views of last summer's Portland protests.

InvestigateWest: Activists thwart fossil fuel projects
Environmentalists teamed with Native Americans, ranchers and even windsurfers to block nearly every effort over the past decade to export fossil fuels from the West Coast.
Judge removes Trump’s public lands boss after governor sued
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully and blocked him from continuing in the position

Timber Wars
‘Timber Wars’ episode 6: The backlash
A congressional push to bring back logging triggered a return to the barricades in the Timber Wars.