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 “One Big Beautiful Bill” that became ...

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 ...

Guest column by Central Oregon LandWatch's Lace Thornberg on where to see fall larch colors in Central Oregon, including Bend's Shevlin Park ...

Although she followed in the footsteps of her father and grandfather, Erin Roos has carved her own way into the timber industry.

When the urge to breed strikes in the spring or summer, a murrelet flies 30 to 40 miles or more inland. The parents take turns sitting on the single egg. When the chick hatches, they ferry food back ...

Girdling, gap cuts, thinning and planting are some of the tactics now being used in Kitsap County to restore former timberland to a more natural state.

We’ll continue to push back against these efforts — which are deeply unpopular with the public — and are building a bipartisan coalition to make clear that public lands must ...

Tribal lands in the Pacific Northwest are earning national recognition for something the U.S. Forest Service has struggled to achieve: healthy, resilient forests. Despite receiving less than 40 cents ...

Decades of grassroots campaigns have finally delivered the Great Koala National Park in NSW, where an immediate logging moratorium has also been announced. Ben Radford reports.

“ELK, BOB, A BULL!” Sally yelled. I scrambled the last few steps to the crest of the ridge with my heart pounding. I’ll never forget the sight that greeted me. A sheltered pocket just below the ridge ...