A federal judge vacated approvals for three logging projects in Oregon and ruled the U.S. Forest Service could not use a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska could be subject to more logging under a Trump administration plan; ...

Beth Nakamura / OPB For decades, the timber industry 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 ...

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 ...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has granted a request by several logging industry firms to join Gov. John Kitzhaber and other state officials in defending Oregon’s plan to allow more logging in ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana officials want to cut down some trees on state land south of Bozeman, but a group of ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has pulled back from selling timber on federally funded wildlife lands as it continues to address environmental concerns pressed by the U.S. Fish & ...