The stump of a large tree among debris, or “slash,” from a five-year-old logging unit in an area of the Northern Cascades near Twisp, Wash., on Sunday, July 20, 2025. Emree Weaver/InvestigateWest

By Moe K. Clark/Investigate West

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…

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