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“Integrated Vegetation Management” on Medford District BLM Forestlands: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
“Integrated Vegetation Management” on Medford District BLM Forestlands: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Some timber advocates within the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) simply cannot abide the idea that there are old-growth forests designated as protected on public lands, so they’ve designed a new program called “Integrated Vegetation Management” to target Late Successional Reserves for logging. Learn more about the IVM project in this blog.

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Applegate, Backyard Forests, Campaign, Wildlands, Public Lands, Old-Growth, ForestsKlamath Siskiyouforestwatch, ivm, Integrated Vegetation Management, Bureau of Land Management, Medford BLM, logging, LSR, old growth, old-growth, old-growth forest, BLM, clear cut, clearcutting, late mungers, penn butte, timber sale, Timber, land management, public land, Public lands, NEPA
Medford BLM Poised to Log Old-Growth Reserves
Medford BLM Poised to Log Old-Growth Reserves

"Integrated Vegetation Management for Resilient Lands" (IVM) sure sounds great doesn't it? Unfortunately, those flowery words are agency-speak for logging old-growth forest reserves down to 30% canopy cover and creating four-acre mini-clearcuts across the landscape in southwestern Oregon.

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Backyard Forests, Campaign, Forests, Public Lands, Wildlands, Old-GrowthHaleigh MartinIVM, Integrated Vegetation Management, old-growth forest, Medford BLM, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, resource management plan, clearcutting, clear cut, forests, forest management, top story