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An environmental group’s threatened lawsuit over management of the Tillamook and Clatsop state forests would hinder ongoing efforts to craft a new plan to manage these lands, Governor John Kitzhaber and state forestry officials said Friday, Feb. 21. Previously, the Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent to sue the Department of Forestry, alleging harm to coastal coho salmon listed under the federal Endangered Species Act. Following years of habitat restoration efforts under the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds, improvements in forest practices, and positive ocean conditions, coastal coho salmon spawning numbers in Oregon have reached record levels. In the past decade, average spawning numbers have increased, and in 2011 356,246 native spawning coho returned, which is the largest return since recording began in 1950. Meanwhile, the Governor has tasked the Board of Forestry with crafting a new plan for more than 636,000 acres of state-owned forests in northwestern Oregon. The best-known of these lands are the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests in the northern Coast Range.