The state, conservation groups and timber industry have agreed on a plan that should make the 50-year habitat conservation plan for state and private forestlands work better. The settlement agreement averts a legal challenge by conservationists, who said the habitat conservation plan was plagued by lack of funding, spotty compliance and cumbersome decision-making. John Dodge reports.
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