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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge vacated approvals for three logging projects in Oregon and ruled the U.S. Forest Service could not use a ...

Members of the Monocacy Hill Conservation Association packed a meeting where a plan for maintaining the popular hiking area ...

A recent federal court ruling tossing out a streamlined environmental review for three Oregon timber projects will point the ...

President Donald Trump took action last weekend to increase domestic logging by circumventing environmental protections and to staunch the flow of imported timber and lumber products into the country, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indonesia’s trade ministry has scrapped a requirement for wood exporters to obtain licenses verifying their wood comes from legal and sustainably managed sources. The SVLK verification system took a ...

This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of ...

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 & ...

BUBA Guinea-Bissau (Reuters) - When middlemen for Chinese traders approached Yusuf Diallo to cut timber from his farm in Guinea-Bissau, he says he knew he had no choice. Soldiers had simply threatened ...