Buoyed by public-opinion polls, environmentalists today are starting a renewed campaign to prohibit logging of most remaining old-growth timber in the Pacific Northwest. The new effort to protect ...

The Biden administration has published its proposed plan for preserving old-growth trees in national forests across the country, opening another opportunity for public input on conserving ancient ...

Industrial-scale logging in the Tongass National Forest was due to monopolies created by the federal government and taxpayer subsidies. Two proposed pulp mills were granted 50-year logging contracts ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include ...

The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan was designed to quell the decades-long “timber wars” between loggers and environments. The plan placed 24 million acres of federal forests in Oregon, Washington and ...

The naturalist John Muir once wrote that “between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” That’s the experience of hiking through the piney woods of East Texas, where one enters the wild, can ...

WASHINGTON— A coalition of environmental groups called on the U.S. Forest Service today to strengthen protections for the nation's mature and old-growth forests and trees. The move came in response to ...

JUNEAU, Alaska— A coalition of conservation groups, Alaska tribes, a commercial fishing advocacy group and an ecotourism operator today filed a request to intervene in a timber industry legal ...

Young growth Sitka spruce from Mitkof Island, milled at Alaska Timber and Truss and shipped via the Alaska Marine Highway, now forms the timber-frame structure of an outdoor learning shelter at ...