An industry study calls for more youth engagement, new workers and modern operations to better serve Oregon’s dwindling ...

Rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule would open up 58 million acres of national forest land across the country to logging and development.

For a small but growing number of Oregon forestland buyers, timber output is no more than a potential byproduct. Their purchases are driven less by a desire for logs than for another resource flowing ...

The Trump administration plans to roll back roadless area protections in national forests because the existing rule places an ...

This week, Rollins proposed ending the Forest Service’s “Roadless Rule,” which bars logging and development on around 2 million acres of forests in Oregon. A public comment period on the proposed rule ...

The Roadless Rule may not directly affect Portland, but its consequences may be deeply felt in other Oregon communities facing repeated wildfire disasters and choking smoke. Many Roadless Areas fall ...

Oregon State University has acquired 3,110 acres of industrial timberland just outside Portland on the north edge of Forest Park and plans to run it as a working research forest for logging ...

New research explains why forests planted for logging purposes fuel devastating wildfires more often than untouched land.

According to the Oregon Employment Department’s covered employment statistics, forestry and logging’s 681 establishments employed 8,787 workers statewide and added $717 million in payroll to ...

According to a memorandum issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, an emergency situation can include natural disasters, like earthquakes and floods, or “catastrophic … failure to a facility,” like a ...

The ‘Roadless Rule’ has prohibited new road construction, a prerequisite for large-scale logging, on vast swaths of federal land since 2001.