Trump’s new law eliminates those protections, freeing loggers to cut big trees and leave behind the small ones. This will worsen existing tinderbox conditions, particularly in the West.

It didn’t get much notice, but President Donald Trump has turbocharged logging on public lands in ways that are likely to increase dangerous wildfire. Inside the “Big Beautiful Bill” that became law ...

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 ...

A harvester crane processes a log on a thinning project in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The project was led by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, the result of ...

PENDLETON — Six conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday, June 14, seeking to overturn a decision made in the final days of the Trump administration that canceled a rule banning logging ...

Trees are one of nature's best weapons against global warming. They take in the carbon dioxide that would otherwise trap heat in the atmosphere and break the molecules apart. They use the carbon to ...

EPWORTH, Iowa — When we think of maple syrup, we think of the East Coast and Canada where maple trees number in the millions, but up in Dubuque County, there's one farmer whose made maple syrup making ...

From left, Gary Williamson, Quintin Magee and Seth Williamson manage Big K Guest Ranch and Outfitters Resort and Kesterson Bros. Logging. Those businesses were recently honored as the 2025 Oregon Tree ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Meg Krawchuk of Oregon State University about the Biden administration's proposal to protect old growth forests. Old trees contain more carbon than younger trees. Trees ...