The order allows federal agencies to bypass environmental protection laws in an effort to increase production but doesn't ...

Climate change is accelerating. For the last 15 years, due to the increasingly unhealthy state of our forests, forest ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that significantly expands logging on federal lands, removing environmental protections and fast-tracking timber sales. The order directs agencies ...

The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and ...

It’s a viral Instagram post that makes a startling claim. President “Trump has ordered over 100 million hectares of forest” — the equivalent of 280 million acres — “to be chopped down,” reads the text ...

The order rolls back the degree to which the agencies have to comply with the Endangered Species Act or consider negative ...

Environmentalists say increasing timber production will harm the climate and environment and could worsen wildfire risk.

The executive orders are the latest in a decades-long tug-of-war between conservation and development in Tongass National ...