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

The Trump administration is turning to rarely used laws to circumvent environmental restrictions and expand logging in ...

Federal officials are proposing to ramp up logging on 2.5 million acres of western Oregon forests as part of a Trump ...

An Oregon State University forest scientist emerita called the proposal "insanity," saying these carbon-storing forests are among the most effective in the world at fighting climate change.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A helicopter carries water to fire behind a ranch near Ukiah as part of the effort against the Battle Mountain Complex of blazes ...

The Trump administration rescinded a longstanding rule meant to safeguard intact forests across the West on June 23 in a move that could open 2 million acres of Oregon forests to logging and ...

Polk County's Valley of the Giants is among the old growth forests listed as potential sites for a federal logging expansion.

(CN) — A judge on Thursday put the brakes on a plan to harvest commercial timber on more than 13,000 acres of federal land in Oregon, pending a detailed environmental analysis. U.S. District Judge ...

The Elliott State Forest in Oregon. (By Oregon Department of Forestry, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News). (CN) — In a landmark decision, a Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday upheld a ...

Oregon is one of the world’s great tree-growing areas. The state’s soils and climate provide ideal conditions to grow such commercially viable species as Douglas fir and ponderosa pine. Forests cover ...