Nick Houtman
Oregon State University Writer
The Pacific Northwest faces two stark choices for managing its forests, scientists suggest in a new book.
One choice leads to stagnant or declining rural communities and risks to some native species, and the other leads to environmental benefits and increases in employment.
In “People, Forests, and Change: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest,” forestry scientists at Oregon State University, the USDA Forest Service and other universities and research organizations…