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 ...

As a small crew worked last week cutting down timber in a spruce-fir forest south of Collbran on Grand Mesa, a rain cloud scudded overhead and moistened the scene. It was an isolated shower, though, ...

The U.S. Forest Service has backed away from some controversial parts of its plan to manage the Giant Sequoia National Monument, but is still calling for extensive timber cutting in the southern ...

HULETT—Jim Neiman says that the best-case scenario for his family’s timber mill at the base of the Bear Lodge Mountains is that it doesn’t shutter. The Crook County sawmill in 2022 shrunk to one shift ...

HULETT—Jim Neiman says that the best-case scenario for his family’s timber mill at the base of the Bear Lodge Mountains is that it doesn’t shutter. The Crook County sawmill in 2022 shrunk to one shift ...

ARLINGTON — A hillside overlooking the Stillaguamish Valley sprouts with young Douglas firs and western red cedar, eight years after being logged. Much of the forest on Stimson Hill was cut down in ...

It’s a stickpin skyline: fire-blackened trees without leaves, needles or even branches as far as the eye can see. The quiet is deathly, until an 18-wheel logging truck roars out of the blackened woods ...

The U.S. Forest Service canceled a second timber sale in the Baylor Park blowdown after three environmental groups filed suit. The Aspen Wilderness Workshop, Colorado Wild and the Center for Native ...

A new study links selective logging to clear-cutting in the Amazon rainforest. The research is significant because it identifies “an important indicator of rain forest vulnerability to clear-cutting ...

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 ...

The Indonesian Forestry Ministry has announced a policy that requires timber companies to have their wood stocks audited to ensure the wood is derived from sustainably managed forests, reports The ...