A judge's pause of the cut in an Elwha forest could be modified or lifted at any time. So the tree sitter has stayed aloft.

Forest and fire officials in Washington state and Oregon say Trump administration funding cuts and a loss of federal workers ...

Coming up with a final federal budget always involves arm twisting and other negotiating tactics as everyone lobbies for ...

The City Council voted to overturn an approval of PGE's controversial transmission line project that would have cut down ...

"You assured me that you would seek to keep this dispatch center open, that you would designate it ‘mission critical,’” ...

When my boy Coleman was four, he asked for — and got — a Davy Crockett jacket and a coonskin cap for Christmas. Back when ...

Forestry based on logging monocultures on short rotations will always have a place, as will set-asides that serve as ...

The Department of Conservation and Recreation’s (DCR) proposal to clear-cut more than 15,000 white pine trees from Manuel Correllus State Forest is a bureaucratic solution looking for a problem. This ...

If there was a vote on whether or not to clear the State Forest of 175 acres of white pine plantations, it would likely be a ...

Mapes began working at The Seattle Times in 1997, specializing in coverage of the environment, natural history and Native ...