Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The federal government is pushing a controversial plan to increase logging in Oregon. Under the Trump administration, officials ...

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(CN) — A judge on Thursday put the brakes on a plan to harvest commercial timber on more than 13,000 acres of federal land in Oregon, pending a detailed environmental analysis. U.S. District Judge ...

The Trump administration rescinded a longstanding rule meant to safeguard intact forests across the West on June 23 in a move that could open 2 million acres of Oregon forests to logging and ...

Negotiations will continue over prescribed burning and small-diameter thinning while commercial logging is halted under a Southern Oregon forest project recently found to violate federal laws. Last ...

SALEM — Annual logging targets would be established for Oregon’s state forests under a bill meant to provide more certainty for timber companies and county governments. However, opponents of House ...

The Elliott State Forest in Oregon. (By Oregon Department of Forestry, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News). (CN) — In a landmark decision, a Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday upheld a ...

For the last 30 years, shrub and grass fires have burned far more acres and destroyed more property in the West than forest fires, and the same was true this season. Still, Republicans in the U.S.

When Gwen Trice dug into her family history, she learned that her father had come to Oregon from Arkansas in a boxcar to live and work in the logging town of Maxville. Maxville was once one of the ...

Daniel Kim/Seattle Times via AP On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden stood among cherry blossoms and towering Douglas firs in a Seattle park to declare the importance of big, old trees. “There ...