Too young to save? The issue isn’t that Department of Natural Resources must log old trees to keep up with demand for wood. Most of the agency’s holdings consist of younger forests, many of which are ...

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 ...

Two conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service alleging it unlawfully entered a contract to harvest timber near the ...

It was the same old story year after year. Jim Hurst would gather his employees for the lumber mill's annual meeting in a big equipment building next to the mill. Each year, Owens & Hurst's co-owner ...

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 ...

2001-06-18 04:00:00 PDT Mattole Valley, Humboldt County-- Rancher Michael Evenson loves the Mattole River; he just wishes it wouldn't have swallowed several acres of his pasture during the flood of ...

Wisconsin officials are earmarking nearly 40,000 more acres of state forestland for intensive logging - a move pushed by the Legislature to provide a fresh source of timber to the forest products ...

For 20 years, Chester S. “Chet the Wood Man” Lubelczyk of North Brookfield has made a living cutting firewood in Quabbin. But that might not be the case by this time next year. The retired Air Force ...

A new management plan for the Giant Sequoia National Monument places greater limits on timber cutting in and near groves of the world’s largest trees, but would still allow logging in nearly a quarter ...

About 59% of all national forest lands in the U.S., including some in southern and central Arizona, would be open to logging under far fewer environmental restrictions than exist today, under a new ...

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 ...