The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this week that it plans to remove protections that have prohibited logging and ...

In 2006, Risch led a two-year effort to craft the Idaho-specific roadless rule. Implemented in 2008, it overrides the ...

The proposal could open road construction and logging to about 30 percent of Forest Service land, including about 37% of ...

Further, as John McCarthy, of the Idaho Conservation League, points out, “We have had intensive logging for years, and that has not prevented forest fires. More roads do not lead to healthier ...

Forestry and logging jobs paid an average of about $51,000 per year in 2014, a U of I report said. Wood-products manufacturing paid nearly $50,000 and paper manufacturing $83,000.

He and his wife Sally, who passed away in January were ordered by the Idaho Supreme Court today to pay $95,000 in attorney fees for an unsuccessful counter-lawsuit over a $6,500 logging job.

An 83-year-old Prineville woman whose disappearance nearly two months ago sparked a wide-ranging search effort that involved the FBI has been found deceased at the end of a former logging road in ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has halted a 7,000-acre eastern Idaho logging project in potential lynx habitat near Yellowstone National Park after finding the U.S. Forest Service failed to ...

The project, called the Deer Point Forest Stewardship Project, will close Bogus Basin Road from mile marker 9.8 to the ski area’s paved parking lot from 8 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. on weekdays ...

A federal judge has halted a salvage logging project on state land in northern Idaho by temporarily banning the use of a contested U.S. Forest Service road on private property within a Wild and ...

Idaho’s legacy of commercial logging, for that reason, has contributed to its current vulnerability to wildfires, Ingalsbee said. “Logging alone can actually increase wildfire risk, not ...

Brook Rollins said the protections Clinton imposed for “inventoried roadless areas” in 2001 hamper forest management and ...