Trees are thinned from a forest stand in this file photo. A federal judge has thrown out an environmental lawsuit that alleged a 40,000-acre forest project in Eastern Oregon unlawfully authorized ...

Loren German of Creekside Logging Co. in Redding, Calif., uses a hot saw to fell a tree in a forest near Viola, Calif. University of California research suggests that more forest thinning projects ...

The “21-inch rule” protects trees that are 21 inches in diameter or larger at breast height on six national forests east of the Cascade Mountains crest in Oregon and Washington. It was implemented in ...

The order brings back protections that had long prohibited logging trees larger than 21 inches in diameter from six national forests in eastern Oregon and Washington. During the final days of the ...

President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meet at the White House. by The Associated Press PENDLETON, Ore. — A federal judge has found that a Trump-era rule change that ...

PENDLETON, Oregon, September 2, 2023 (ENS) – A Trump-era change in U.S. Forest Service regulations that permitted the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates three separate ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves.

The Biden administration has published its proposed plan for preserving old-growth trees in national forests across the country, opening another opportunity for public input on conserving ancient ...

Too young to save? The issue isn’t that Department of Natural Resources must log old trees to keep up with demand for wood. Most of the agency’s holdings consist of younger forests, many of which are ...

It didn’t get much notice, but President Donald Trump has turbocharged logging on public lands in ways that are likely to increase dangerous wildfire. Inside the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that became ...

WATERLOO -- Almost every large tree planting project in Waterloo since the 1970s had one common element: plenty of ash. "We'd throw three or four or five varieties in, but maybe a quarter or a third ...

The vast majority of western dry forests are at risk of large, high-intensity fire because of the effects of poor forest management over the past century. The primary factors that lead to current ...