Salazar Announces Plans To Drop WOPR Logging Plan

By Rob Manning | July 16, 2009 4:33 p.m. | Updated: June 16, 2010 11:58 p.m. | Portland, OR

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The Obama administration is scrapping a plan for increased logging in Northwest forests.

Officials from the Interior Department announced their plan to drop the Western Oregon Plan Revision Thursday.

OPB’s Rob Manning spoke with Geoff Norcross about political, environmental and economic implications of the decision.

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