The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan was designed to quell the decades-long “timber wars” between loggers and environments. The plan placed 24 million acres of federal forests in Oregon, Washington and ...

Chad Stewart, supervisor of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests, has described the recently released revised land management plan for the forests as one that strikes “the best ...

Oregon is entering the home stretch of debate over a controversial plan that would scale back logging on state forests, but before making a final recommendation, state forester Cal Mukumoto wants to ...

A proposed lawsuit from Cascadia Wildlands, Center for Biological Diversity, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center and Western Environmental Law Center seeks to protect the marbled murrelet and coastal ...

Last July, 21 scientists, loggers, conservationists, and tribal and government representatives were convened for one simple task: decide the future of Northwest forests. The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan ...

A new forest management plan from the Bureau of Land Management in Medford will help speed up proposed projects. But local activists fear the plan could hurt forests and endangered species. The ...

U.S. Forest Service staff hold a public field trip in the Telephone Gap project area in 2021. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service After years of debate, the U.S. Forest Service issued a draft ...

Big Bear just had a close call. Officials don’t yet know what sparked the Radford fire on Sept. 5. But while the blaze triggered hundreds of evacuations and consumed more than 1,000 acres of San ...

(TNS) - Big Bear just had a close call. Officials don’t yet know what sparked the Radford fire on Sept. 5. But while the blaze triggered hundreds of evacuations and consumed more than 1,000 acres of ...

Move comes as some caution Canada, Mexico tariffs will spike building materials costs Cut down U.S. housing costs by increasing the nation’s timber production. That's the strategy behind an executive ...

A state plan to harvest a section of beloved old-growth forest near Ely has riled some of the thousands of hikers and skiers who use it each year to experience northern Minnesota as it once was.

Minnesota Forest Industries executive vice president Rick Horton argues in this second installment of my interview with him that loggers don’t determine the age of aspen that is cut on state lands, ...