Oral arguments in an appeals court case over logging recently aired the long-running question of whether environmental laws are preventing federal land managers from fulfilling duties on timber sales (Swanson Grp. Mfg. LLC v. Jewell, D.C. Cir., No. 13-5268, 3/13/15). The Bureau of Land Management, responsible for protecting and managing forests in western Oregon under the Oregon and California Lands Act, has failed for two decades to sell as much timber as required under the O&C Lands Act. That law imposes timber sales obligations that are unlike the multiple-use mandates of national forests managed by the U.S. Forest Service.
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