The coalition accused a logging company of exploiting its contract with the U.S. Forest Service to stifle competition.
Some loggers headed in to cut down trees in the Blue Mountains may soon be prioritizing habitat over board feet. That’s because Blue Mountains Forest Partners, a group of stakeholders including ...
ROSEBURG, Ore. — The federal government has proposed logging on Southern Oregon forests swept by wildfire last year, and environmental groups have gone to court to block the plans, alleging 24 ...
Federal foresters have pushed back public meetings that will outline the future of national forests east of the Cascades. The U.S. Forest Service had planned to hold a series of meetings about the ...
As the work begins to assess the damage done to the Columbia River Gorge by the Eagle Creek Fire, conversations are beginning about what should be done to repair that damage. Recently, U.S.
In June, federal land managers announced one of the largest timber sales the Northwest has ever seen. Two years ago, the Biscuit Fire torched 500,000 acres in southern Oregon and California. Now, in a ...
PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a lawsuit filed Monday by the Center for Biological Diversity and Cascadia Wildlands, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has pulled its authorization of federal ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Bush administration efforts to boost salvage logging after wildfires suffered a loss Tuesday when a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that had stopped harvest of burned trees ...
The bill comes on top of calls in Oregon from state House Republicans to roll back restrictions on logging in state and private forests. Three prominent state lawmakers recentlycalled on their peersin ...
A Douglas-fir seedling emerges from a pinecone after a fire; the site was later salvage-logged Dan Donato, after the Biscuit Fire — and before the firestorm Conifer seedlings catapulted Dan Donato ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A group of forest ecologists wants the world to stop rushing to turn trees killed by wildfire into lumber, arguing that salvage logging undermines many of the ecological benefits ...
As Oregon heads into summer heat, fire season has been declared across a growing percentage of the state, leading to public use restrictions on activities that might ignite wildfires. “The conditions ...