It didn’t get much notice, but President Donald Trump has turbocharged logging on public lands in ways that are likely to increase dangerous wildfire. Inside the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that became ...

Spectators look on from Island Avenue in Island City during the Ag-Timber Parade Friday, May 21, 2021. Six conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, June 14, 2022, seeking to prevent the ...

It didn’t get much notice, but President Trump has turbocharged logging on public lands in ways that are likely to increase dangerous wildfires. Inside the “big beautiful bill” that became law this ...

Too young to save? The issue isn’t that Department of Natural Resources must log old trees to keep up with demand for wood. Most of the agency’s holdings consist of younger forests, many of which are ...

A federal judge has thrown out an environmental lawsuit that claimed a 40,000-acre forest project in Eastern Oregon unlawfully authorized the harvest of large trees. In 2020, the U.S. Forest Service ...

The Trump administration has prioritized increasing timber harvest in Oregon. Could it be part of a new era for timber in the ...

In western Oregon, public forests that once fueled rural prosperity — and later came under strict habitat protections that sharply reduced logging and local revenues — are again at the center of a ...

With the right equipment and a little luck, stealing a tree from a swath of land as remote and vast as the Olympic National Forest should have been easy enough. In the summer of 2018, Justin Wilke, a ...

Large ponderosa pines have been marked for removal as part of a fire preparedness project, but conservation group Oregon Wild says they should be spared. Jamie Dawson with the conservation group ...