When the Trump administration announced executive actions aimed at increasing timber production on federal lands​, Oregonians ...

National forests face the hatchet as Trump administration boosts logging A new policy opens 58% of U.S. national forests to logging by rolling back environmental protections.

The protest, near Olympic National Park in Washington state, is part of a growing movement aimed at saving decades-old trees that aren’t considered old-growth.

Swaths of Allegheny National Forest could be on the chopping block as the federal government moves to increase logging in national forests.

President Donald Trump took action last weekend to increase domestic logging by circumventing environmental protections and to staunch the flow of imported timber and lumber products into the ...

Can logging in New Hampshire help fight climate change? Mature and old trees are massive carbon sinks that absorb planet-warming emissions. What happens when they’re logged for forest management?

The USDA stated that nearly 60 percent of Utah's national forest lands, 58 percent of Montana's, and 92 percent of Alaska's Tongass National Forest had been subject to Roadless Rule protections ...

Though not an historic high, timbering will ramp up under new administrative directive. The Forest Service will put millions more in board feet for sale, a 12% increase fueled by new federal guidance.

Stephen Kropp, the founder of the nonprofit Legacy Forest Defense Coalition of Washington, has ramped up his mission of raising awareness about logging so-called “legacy forests” on Washington ...

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The Forest Service does have ways to prevent this. It requires a timber sale administrator to visit logging sites every 14 days to make sure everything is on the up and up.