Can Washington state hold off harvesting older forests in the face of a projected $12 billion budget deficit without impacting local governments and school districts that get money from those timber ...

In 2019, conservation activist and longtime Washington state resident Stephen Kropp did something he’d never done before: he explored a forest managed as state trust land by the Washington State ...

PORT ANGELES, Wash. – On the 40th night of the protest, a black Jeep drove up a logging road and stopped near the base of a towering grand fir. For more than a month, environmental activists had been ...

COLVILLE, Wash. – The Trump administration is moving to rescind the federal Roadless Rule, potentially opening Washington state forests to increased logging and road construction after more than two ...

A section of the Colville National Forest is shown in this file photo Steve Ringman The Seattle Times/TNS The Pacific Northwest is fortunate to have vast forests and ideal conditions for growing trees ...

New Washington Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove halted 23 timber sales, saying the Department of Natural Resources needs time to study the condition of state’s older forests. The order, Upthegrove’s ...

WASHINGTON — The state has paused the October Mountain State Forest logging and management project to determine whether the plan is climate friendly. The state Department of Conservation and ...