The state of Oregon has been playing fast and loose with the law for years in the way it claims to ‘protect’ the imperiled marbled murrelet… The decision to further defer hundreds of acres of clearcuts is one that we welcome and provides interim relief for the murrelet.
— Francis Eatherington, conservation director of Cascadia Wildlands, reacting to the State of Oregon’s decision to suspend clearcutting on nine hundred and fourteen acres of old-growth timber in Elliott State Forest.
