Timber harvests would be taxed based on value, rather than log volume, under a controversial Oregon bill that aims to raise more money for wildfire protection. For the past three decades, Oregon ...

A federal appeals court has sided with environmental groups over logging private land that was once part of the Elliott State Forest. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed a 2022 ...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Thursday it is ending large-scale, old-growth timber sales on the nation’s largest national forest — the Tongass National Forest in Alaska — and will instead ...

Washington’s Commissioner of Public Lands runs the state Department of Natural Resources. The agency is responsible for managing nearly 6 million acres of public lands — everything from coastal waters ...

The largest timber companies operating in Southeast Alaska want the Tongass National Forest to sell them more old-growth timber, and they’re suing the federal government to get it. The Department of ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Land Management has withdrawn a controversial timber project near Eugene after three environmental groups filed a lawsuit last November. The Big League Project included logging, thinning ...

Sustainable forest management plans in the Brazilian Amazon are intended to ensure compliance with strict environmental rules, but many are used fraudulently as cover for illegal logging, according to ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- Flames shot high into the sky in Fayetteville on Monday morning. A fire ignited a large storage pile of logging timber on Shaw Mill Road off of Murchison Road around 11 ...