On July 2, Kenya's president ended an almost six-year moratorium on logging in the country's public and community forests. "We can't have mature trees rotting in forests while locals suffer due to ...

Shasta College in Northern California is playing a pivotal role in addressing the growing labor shortage in the logging industry. With the number of available logging jobs in the US steadily declining ...

Logging and landscaping are the most dangerous jobs in America, a new study finds. The risk of death for loggers is more than 30 times higher than for all U.S. workers. Tree care workers also ...

Nonfarm employment was up in six of Louisiana’s nine metropolitan areas for the year ended Feb. 28. Troubles continued in the oil and gas industries, though, as mining and logging jobs fell in five of ...

Student logger Eric Aguilar walks through a logging site. He is part of a logging program based at Shasta College in Redding, Calif. Credit: Minh Connors for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

HOME VALLEY, Skamania County — The mill is idle now, but 30 workers used to turn logs into softwood veneer here in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge. They held down the kind of family-wage jobs ...

U.S. blue collar jobs experienced a dip in February 2021, falling slightly from the previous month, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research’s (CEPR) Blue Collar Jobs Report. On a ...

SHINGLETOWN, Calif. — On a cold morning in October, the sun shone weakly through tall sugar pines and cedars in Shingletown, a small Northern California outpost whose name is a reminder of its history ...

MONTPELIER — An improved set of practices designed to protect water quality on logging jobs goes into effect as a revised rule tomorrow, October 22. The Acceptable Management Practices for Maintaining ...

A dozen Humboldt County high school students got a firsthand look at the logging and lumber industry last week, and learned about employment opportunities, with a special focus on current jobs ...