“For too long the timber industry has treated our state forests like cash cows, without enough protection for fish or water quality,” said Amy Atwood, senior counsel at the Center. Both activities choke streams with fine sediments that smother coho spawning and rearing habitat and degrade water quality for people.
The Center for Biological Diversity, Cascadia Wildlands and Native Fish Society brought the suit, which asserted that for years the Department had been harming threatened coho salmon - in violation of the Endangered Species Act - by hauling timber on roads hydrologically connected to streams and by logging steep slopes, which causes landslides. PORTLAND, Ore.- Resolving multiyear litigation over the harms of logging to coho salmon, conservation groups reached an agreement today with the Oregon Department of Forestry to greatly expand stream buffers across more than half a million acres of the Tillamook and Clatsop state forests.
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