Month: September 2026

Washington

WA looks to boost salvage logging as wildfires scorch record amount of state land

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Summer wildfires burning through Washington just broke another record.  They’ve scorched more than 886,000 acres. Of those, 93,000 acres are on state trust land, marking the record for the largest amount of state-managed land burned by fires in a season since recordkeeping began in 2000.  Two-thirds of that state land was forests, meaning a hit…