Timber harvesters and haulers are the backbone of Maine’s $8 billion forest products industry. But the most forested state in ...

Amazonian forests are unlikely to provide enough timber to meet current demand over the long term, even with the use of improved logging practices. Camille Piponiot, junior scientist from the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A logging company plans to reduce clear-cutting on about 560,000 acres in the Sierra Nevada, a move greeted with skepticism by some environmentalists. Sierra Pacific Industries, a ...

The shrinking of the federal forest workforce is among several factors that have more impact on forest fire risk than the ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – The company that bought the first timber in a national forest roadless area since the Bush administration eased logging rules agreed Friday not to start felling trees until after a ...

In recent years, the continued exploitation of natural resources and depletion of our forests has been a major issue to say the least. The fight for sustainability has become increasingly important as ...

Tons of timber cut fighting last year’s Elk Fire won't be left to rot as it typically would. The timber left from battling ...

Two years ago, Sealaska Corp. gave the Trump administration a prescription for managing the region’s millions of acres of forest. Open more areas to logging, the Alaska Native corporation urged, ...

FLORIDA — When Stanley L. Brown was a boy in the late 1930s, sweet things drew him to meadows a few miles from the family homestead in the town of Florida. "That was pretty much open, and we would go ...

Amazonian forests are unlikely to provide enough timber to meet current demand over the long term, even with the use of improved logging practices. That is a key finding of a new study. Amazonian ...

Bear Wheeler of Elcho, Wis., left, and Bob Peterson of Green Lake, Wis. perform a “ribbon-cutting” on a log using a large, ...