More and more workers are lining up to blow the whistle on a state project that they say is irresponsibly removing trees along roads and properties that burned in last year’s wildfires. Multiple ...

Think twice before cutting that tree near your yard — it could be illegal. Tacoma city workers have started monitoring what they see as a problem: timber trespass. It’s the illegal cutting, pruning or ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As thousands of Oregon homes burned to rubble last month, the ...

Deep in the night on August 4, 2018, a trio of timber cutters bushwhacked into a steep valley thick with brush, wearing headlamps and carrying a chainsaw, gas can, and a slew of felling tools. Their ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GOULD — Stunned by unprecedented megafires, Colorado is embracing logging — mowing holes up to 140 acres in beetle-infested lodgepole pines — in an effort to ...

This year was a contentious one for Michigan’s electric utilities -- over trees. The state’s big electric providers, under federal and state mandates to reduce outages, this year ramped up their ...

A Tampa tree cutting firm was fined nearly a quarter-million dollars after cutting down 28 trees in 2019 at a Gandy Boulevard trailer park. Nearly three dozen trees were cut down at a half-abandoned ...