A 34-year-old rule exempting some commercial logging projects on federal lands from environmental review is unlawful, a ...

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.

When it comes to timber harvesting, removing the whole tree—from stump to twigs—doesn’t reduce plant diversity any more than old-fashioned logging, which leaves tree branches behind in the woods. As ...

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

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 ...

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 ...