This week, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed and remanded the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that had determined Clean Water Act permits are required for stormwater discharges from logging roads. The case involved some complicated legal...
Across the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a spider web of logging roads crisscrosses the landscape from the steep hillsides of headwater areas to the lower elevation valleys. Each fall, iconic runs of salmon return to these watersheds, instinctively drawn to the...