In wildfire-prone Washington, ‘collaboration’ on forest management gives way to timber interests

By: Moe K. Clark

Outlets: InvestigateWest

Published: July 31, 2025

Words: 4,355

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Throughout her two decades working on forestry issues, Jasmine Minbashian has often found herself at odds with the U.S. Forest Service and the timber industry. Her environmental activism started during the second wave of Pacific Northwest “Timber Wars” — an intense period of conflict between environmentalists and the timber industry that unfolded in the late 1980s and ’90s over logging in old-growth forests.

Instead of camping out in century-old trees or destroying timber-felling equipment in protest …

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