I'M DAN GREEN. I'M ERIN CLARK.. OUR OTHER TOP STORY TONIGHT INVOLVES WORK RAMPING UP TO PREVENT FLOODING ON A SECTION OF THE BIG SUR RIVER. A HUGE LOG JAM HAS CHANGED THE COURSE OF THE RIVER AND IS ...
A century-old redwood — California’s most revered tree — lies dead on the forest floor. Its trunk has been sawed into two large sections, a message scrawled on its stump in red marker: “STOP.” Beneath ...
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 ...
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Forestry, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and U.S. Forest Service recently renewed their agreement allowing continued work across boundaries to ...
Logging trucks driving up Big Oak Flat Road from Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, June 2022. DOUG BEVINGTON Special to The Bee Yosemite National Park has a large logging project underway ...
An old-growth forest of noble fir trees at Marys Peak in Oregon's Coast Range. Beverly Law, CC BY-ND Mature and old-growth forests, with larger trees than younger forests, play an outsized role in ...
Thousands of acres of U.S. Forest Service land bordering Yellowstone National Park are safe from a large logging project — at least temporarily. Conservation groups including the Sierra Club and the ...
Hundreds of Buncombe County residents are rallying to keep thousands of acres from potential logging in Big Ivy's old growth forests, petitioning the county to take action. Residents flooded the ...
A federal judge has thrown out an environmental lawsuit that claimed a 40,000-acre forest project in Eastern Oregon unlawfully authorized the harvest of large trees. In 2020, the U.S. Forest Service ...