Salvage is a word that is much in the air these days, not just in the woods, but also in the lecture halls of universities and in the marble corridors of Washington, D.C. It is a word of power, a ...

The devastating Rim Fire around Yosemite National Park has now rekindled a fierce fight over salvage logging. Some want to speed commercial removal of the wrecked timber left behind by the fire that ...

Salvage logging could speed up on fire-scarred federal land near Yosemite National Park, under an amended bill passed by a divided House on Wednesday. If the Senate goes along, the Yosemite-area ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 5—There is plenty to debate about salvage logging of burned trees after wildfires. The timber industry says it's important to ...

The Lolo National Forest is proposing to “salvage” log a portion of the 28,000-acre Liberty Burn near Seeley Lake, Montana. The Forest Service (FS) approved the logging using a categorical exclusion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Logged trees are piled along Highway 46, adjacent to the Breitenbush River. A federal judge has halted U.S. Forest Service plans ...

PORTLAND — Environmentalists want to reinstate an injunction against salvage logging on 1,800 acres in California’s Klamath National Forest while the federal government and a timber group argue the ...

There are many reasons why people may wish to salvage trees after wildfires like those that occurred in the western Cascades last September, including getting logs to the mill, recovering the economic ...