The “21-inch rule” protects trees that are 21 inches in diameter or larger at breast height on six national forests east of the Cascade Mountains crest in Oregon and Washington. It was implemented in ...

PENDLETON — Six conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday, June 14, seeking to overturn a decision made in the final days of the Trump administration that canceled a rule banning logging ...

A team of nearly 100 researchers found the average tree size in the massive rainforest has increased by more than 3 percent ...

NORTH ADAMS — The close of a public comment period on a forest stewardship plan for Notch Reservoir did not exactly quiet voices of dissent. Monday marked the end of an effort seeking input on the ...

But today, this site in George Washington national forest, along with other near-pristine forests across the US that amount ...

Rainforest seedlings are more likely to survive in natural forests than in places where logging has happened -- even if tree restoration projects have taken place, new research shows. Rainforest ...

To the editor: As a professor teaching about climate justice, I have become aware of how corporate interests linked with government bureaucrats have been exploiting the growing concern about global ...

Learn about the impact of logging, its benefits, drawbacks, and the ongoing debate on whether to log in state and federally-protected forests.

A federal appeals court has sided with environmental groups over logging private land that was once part of the Elliott State Forest. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed a 2022 ...

WATERLOO -- Almost every large tree planting project in Waterloo since the 1970s had one common element: plenty of ash. "We'd throw three or four or five varieties in, but maybe a quarter or a third ...

This was not the first time that authorities had discovered an illegal logging operation taking place in war-torn Ukraine.