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State Logging Moratorium Finally Ends
The moratorium on timber harvesting on state-owned forestland has finally come to an end after 18 months.
The moratorium began as agencies pulled back forest management projects after the November 2022 election, even before the Healey-Driscoll Administration took office. It stayed in place except for a single public safety project in Erving and the completion of projects already awarded in early 2023. It was formally in place during the seven months the Climate Forestry Committee (CFC) worked on its report, and then, while officially lifted in early January, actually continued for five more months until the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) released its response to the CFC Report, which finally happened last Monday after months of promises that it was coming soon.
The response, which the administration is calling a “work plan,” is a 20-page document that can be downloaded by clicking here. The purpose of the response was to state how the Administration would choose to implement the recommendations from the CFC Report. Here’s what’s in the work plan: