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

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

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 ...

A new study is offering fuel for the increasingly political debate over fire risk and fire prevention. President Donald Trump recently called for more logging on federal lands, both to promote timber ...

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 ...