In western Oregon, public forests that once fueled rural prosperity — and later came under strict habitat protections that ...

As a small crew worked last week cutting down timber in a spruce-fir forest south of Collbran on Grand Mesa, a rain cloud scudded overhead and moistened the scene. It was an isolated shower, though, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Pedro Brancalion is used to the roar of chainsaws. For years, he’s heard loggers tearing down rainforest giants in the Brazilian Amazon, and ...

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 ...

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 ...