PORT ANGELES — Dozens of protesters and counter-protesters lined U.S. Highway 101 to rally for or against the sale and logging of Aldwell timber, roughly 90 acres of what conservancy groups determined ...

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 ...

Timber helped build Oregon, but, since the 1990s, the state’s western counties have lost thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in annual revenue. For decades, much of the blame for the downturn ...

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 ...

Logging is not necessarily a dirty word in the environmental dictionary. There, I said it. Provided sustainable practices are used, namely the careful choice over what trees get chopped down, logging ...

Facing pressure to increase timber harvests, the U.S. Forest Service is sidestepping rigorous environmental reviews and ...

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 ...

Proponents and critics of logging rarely agree on the impacts of timber harvesting on wildfire risk, biological diversity, ...

The redwood wars are long over. Pacific Lumber is no more, but the company town it built endures in Humboldt County. Can it ...

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 ...

Indonesia’s trade ministry has scrapped a requirement for wood exporters to obtain licenses verifying their wood comes from legal and sustainably managed sources. The SVLK verification system took a ...