The Lolo National Forest is proposing to “salvage” log a portion of the 28,000-acre Liberty Burn near Seeley Lake, Montana. The Forest Service (FS) approved the logging using a categorical exclusion ...

A recent federal court ruling tossing out a streamlined environmental review for three Oregon timber projects will point the ...

PORTLAND – Bush Administration plans to boost logging in Northwest national forests have collided with low timber prices blamed on the housing slump. The U.S. Forest Service is running short of money ...

For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that. OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a ...

Oregon's forests remain open for logging and timber sales during the novel coronavirus pandemic because forest products have been deemed part of "critical infrastructure," according to state and ...

A study published in Environmental Research Letters indicates Amazonian forests probably can't provide enough timber to meet current longterm demands. This is true even if better logging practices are ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March aimed at revitalizing America’s timber industry by increasing logging on federal lands, streamlining permitting, and reducing regulatory ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. – The crime scene — a once-wooded landscape marked by tire tracks and tree stumps — makes the victim, Verna Potter, feel physically violated. "It's just like someone cut your heart out ...

2003-03-07 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- The Bush administration plans to more than double the amount of logging allowed in the national forests of the Sierra Nevada over the next decade, according to a ...

The timber industry for decades drove the economy in Oregon, a state where nearly half of the land is forest. Today, the industry has changed. Logging in federal forests, once a major source of lumber ...