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 ...

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

As wildfire seasons worsen, experts discuss the role of federal land management in reducing fire risk and the importance of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a small crew worked last week cutting down timber in a spruce-fir forest south of Collbran on Grand Mesa, a rain cloud scudded overhead and moistened the scene. It was an isolated shower, though, ...

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

Ever since 2020’s wildfires cooled, we’ve been taking calls from community members alarmed at the amount of burned forest being carted away by log trucks. Much of what folks saw early on was so-called ...

The flames of the Ferguson Fire in California have become the latest symbols of a seemingly perennial challenge of fighting fires in the West. I just returned from the Ferguson Fire camp, where I met ...

ARNOLD, Calif. — Just up a mountain road from this town in the heart of Sierra logging country is a spooky patch of forest that, simply put, has too many trees. The trunks of the pines are inches ...