The Lolo National Forest is proposing to “salvage” log a portion of the 28,000-acre Liberty Burn near Seeley Lake, Montana. The Forest Service (FS) approved the logging using a categorical exclusion ...

Logging is not necessarily a dirty word in the environmental dictionary. There, I said it. Provided sustainable practices are used, namely the careful choice over what trees get chopped down, logging ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Trump administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards related to future logging projects in more than half of national forests under an emergency designation announced ...

For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that. OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March aimed at revitalizing America’s timber industry by increasing logging on federal lands, streamlining permitting, and reducing regulatory ...

On March 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order for the immediate expansion of American timber production. Within the executive order, it's said that increased production of timber, ...

Oregon's forests remain open for logging and timber sales during the novel coronavirus pandemic because forest products have been deemed part of "critical infrastructure," according to state and ...

Beth Nakamura / OPB For decades, the timber industry drove the economy in Oregon, a state where nearly half of the land is forest. Today, the industry has changed. Logging in federal forests, once a ...

The Wilderness Society lodges complaint with consumer watchdog over hardware and garden chain’s sale of timber sourced from NSW Forestry Corporation ...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has granted a request by several logging industry firms to join Gov. John Kitzhaber and other state officials in defending Oregon’s plan to allow more logging in ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has pulled back from selling timber on federally funded wildlife lands as it continues to address environmental concerns pressed by the U.S. Fish & ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A timber company is challenging Montana’s sale of a logging deferral to a Bozeman group, arguing ...