Forests damaged by wildfire on the Colville Indian Reservation. (Rian Dundon/Oregon Capital Chronicle) The fires that burned down the Santiam Canyon over Labor Day weekend in 2020 were a disaster for ...
President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies to increase logging on national forests nationwide, including in Washington state, counter to decades of environmental policy and protections. A ...
Proponents and critics of logging rarely agree on the impacts of timber harvesting on wildfire risk, biological diversity, ...
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include cutting ...
The Allegheny National Forest encompasses more than 500,000 acres in four counties and is the only national forest in Pennsylvania. The Allegheny National Forest is set to ramp up logging by more than ...
Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system. They reduce the buildup of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and land degradation by ...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Environmental advocates are fighting a federal plan that increases logging operations in two U.S. forests in North Carolina. MountainTrue, Sierra Club, Center for Biological ...
A spokesperson for the Allegheny National Forest said the impact would not be felt locally, but some advocates remain ...
The Forest Service quietly started a logging project in the Pisgah National Forest — then canceled it after environmental ...