A 34-year-old rule exempting some commercial logging projects on federal lands from environmental review is unlawful, a federal judge recently ruled. Judge Michael McShane in the U.S. District Court ...

In a win for conservation groups, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Forest Service from relying on a decades-old exemption to ...

Never in the history of this planet has a forest been logged back to health,” said the founder of a preservation group.

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

These findings underscore the critical importance of protecting remaining pristine tropical rainforests rather than relying ...

For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that. OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a ...

Logging and the trucking of wood supports 9,366 Maine jobs either directly or indirectly, as well as a range of industries and communities across Maine, according to a new analysis of the most recent ...