Federal wildfire policy that advocates “fuel reduction” under the assumption that logging projects will curb large blazes and save homes is challenged by a recent paper that questions whether this is ...

The whir of a disc-saw echoed across Palomar Mountain on a recent December afternoon as loggers cut down hundreds of white fir and incense cedar on a steep hillside dotted with rustic homes. It’s a ...

So says Bob Selzler as he pulls the heavy choker cable toward the next large ponderosa pine stretched out across the forest floor. “Logging is really all I know.” With a practiced ease, he wraps the ...

Thirty years ago, fuels-reduction work in the national forests to prevent mega-fires was promoted like a religious revival. It involved logging projects focusing on thinning forests to mitigate the ...

KALISPELL - As lumber mills grind to a halt, their saws dulled against the blunt edge of a national housing slump, loggers and log haulers are likewise being forced out of their woods work. No new ...

PHOENIX — Fire prevention efforts to begin thinning millions of acres of Arizona's overgrown forests got two significant boosts in recent weeks, even as the largest blaze in state history wiped out ...

KALISPELL - Forest thinning projects aimed at reducing wildfire risk are keeping loggers and log haulers at work during the housing slump. "Right now, we're the only game in town from some of these ...