Science & Environment

Lawsuit challenges rollback of large tree protections east of the Cascades

By Bradley W. Parks (OPB)
June 14, 2022 11:35 p.m. Updated: June 15, 2022 4:36 p.m.

For more than two decades, a federal rule prohibited cutting trees larger than 21 inches in diameter on millions of forested acres in Oregon and Washington. That changed in the final days of the Trump administration.