ROSEBURG, Ore. — Between being cut off the stump and entering a sawmill, logs are scaled and graded. That responsibility for many Oregon and California logging and mill companies is entrusted to the ...

The Lolo National Forest is proposing to “salvage” log a portion of the 28,000-acre Liberty Burn near Seeley Lake, Montana. The Forest Service (FS) approved the logging using a categorical exclusion ...

On March 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order for the immediate expansion of American timber production. Within the executive order, it's said that increased production of timber, ...

Proponents and critics of logging rarely agree on the impacts of timber harvesting on wildfire risk, biological diversity, ...

Many locals in the Snowy Range are pleased that a logging road is getting plowed this year even though they can't use it.

A spokesperson for the Allegheny National Forest said the impact would not be felt locally, but some advocates remain ...

Local leaders and timber industry professionals are hoping for an economic boost as logging increases in the Allegheny ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) look at some old-growth logs in the yard at Viking Lumber in Klawock. The two toured Prince of Wales Island on June 5 ...

A century-old redwood — California’s most revered tree — lies dead on the forest floor. Its trunk has been sawed into two large sections, a message scrawled on its stump in red marker: “STOP.” Beneath ...

Russell Warman is a member of FSC Australia and has previously worked as a policy analyst with ENGOs involved in Tasmania's forest negotiations. The new Tasmanian government has announced the first ...

This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of ...