Outside Trinidad, Calif., in an area known as Strawberry Rock, Walter, a 22-year-old UCLA student, is taking part in a tree sit-in to prevent a logging company from cutting redwoods and other trees.

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new tree logging device to climb tree trunks, remove limbs, measure stick lengths, and fell sticks from the tree trunk on the way down," ...

There has long been controversy regarding the adverse effects of logging, especially concerning the practice of whole-tree skidding, which removes the branches and treetrops of trees for electrical ...

May 5—There is plenty to debate about salvage logging of burned trees after wildfires. The timber industry says it's important to cut down and remove still-usable trees before they rot and become ...

How a man applies Horace’s famed “carpe diem” to his long weekends is a Rorschach test of sorts, akin to how he eats red meat. Some heed the wisdom by crushing a twelve pack. Others spackle the ...

As much as we love our two-by-fours and toilet paper, many of us have mixed feelings about logging. Those feelings can morph into straight-out hostility when it comes to removing the branches and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. EBIENG-EDZUA, Gabon — There is no logging in the forest managed by residents of Ebieng-Edzua, in northeastern Gabon. For the past decade, this ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tree sitting has become a popular way to protest logging operations, despite its danger. A man with the environmental activist group Earth First! died this week after he fell more ...

The role of tree DNA tracking is increasing in the fight against illegal logging as evidenced by prosecution cases in USA and Germany. Modern DNA technology offers a unique opportunity: you could ...

MYRTLE CREEK, Ore. -- Last year, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sold the rights to log a small grove of Douglas firs to a private company called Roseburg Forest Products. Roseburg bid more than $1 ...

When it comes to timber harvesting, removing the whole tree -- from stump to twigs -- doesn't reduce plant diversity any more than old-fashioned logging, which leaves tree branches behind in the woods ...

Once a logging outpost, Vancouver Island's Tall Tree Capital is luring tourists to see the last remaining old-growth forests and one lone relic, a thousand-year-old, two-hundred-foot Douglas Fir named ...