When the Trump administration announced executive actions aimed at increasing timber production on federal lands​, Oregonians ...

Trump's executive order to boost timber production on federal lands by 25% has ignited debate between industry workers and environmental groups over forest management.

RENO, Nev. - Logging of national forests costs U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year, according to one new estimate, as federal land managers try to marry a ...

President Donald Trump’s administration issued an emergency directive this month that opens more than half of U.S. national forests to logging projects. An emergency designation of 176,000 square ...

A much larger swath of central Arizona is also shown on that map as open to logging under the slimmed-down timber-cutting rules. Those lands include a large area in which a wide variety of ...

In an emergency directive issued late last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced her department’s plan to expand logging and timber production by 25 percent and ...

Democratic presidents have sought to keep the rule and have been opposed by logging and development trade groups ... to more efficiently fight fires in national forests and allow timber cutting that ...

Three years later, there are what appear to be major industry tailwinds: a pro-logging presidential order, prospective tariff hikes on Canadian timber and now a U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

The USDA is rolling back a 2001 rule that protected state land in the Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee and the Land Between the Lakes in Middle Tennessee.

Increased timber production could be coming to the Volunteer State, impacting the Appalachian forests in East Tennessee. A new emergency order from the U.S. Department of Agriculture allocated 59% ...