President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies to increase logging on national forests nationwide, including in Washington state, counter to decades of environmental policy and protections. A ...

Proponents and critics of logging rarely agree on the impacts of timber harvesting on wildfire risk, biological diversity, ...

Forests damaged by wildfire on the Colville Indian Reservation. (Rian Dundon/Oregon Capital Chronicle) The fires that burned down the Santiam Canyon over Labor Day weekend in 2020 were a disaster for ...

Categorical exclusion six allows the Forest Service to authorize certain commercial logging projects without any environmental analysis, but conservation groups say the agency exceeded its authority.

The Allegheny National Forest encompasses more than 500,000 acres in four counties and is the only national forest in Pennsylvania. The Allegheny National Forest is set to ramp up logging by more than ...

A spokesperson for the Allegheny National Forest said the impact would not be felt locally, but some advocates remain ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include cutting ...

The proposed project was to take place in a designated North Carolina Natural Heritage Natural Area containing rare plants ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Environmental advocates are fighting a federal plan that increases logging operations in two U.S. forests in North Carolina. MountainTrue, Sierra Club, Center for Biological ...

The Forest Service quietly started a logging project in the Pisgah National Forest — then canceled it after environmental ...

The project called for a network of clear-cuts, logging and prescribed fire across a 40,000-acre swath of the Custer Gallatin ...