Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates ...

The change upended the Forest Service's criteria for tree protection, replacing its old 21-foot standard with one that allowed timber sales for trees up to 30 feet in diameter. In January 2021 — just ...

Critics say it is time for the White House to make demands of the Forest Service instead of letting the agency advance pro-logging policies.

The proposal stems from President Joe Biden’s 2022 executive order calling for federal restrictions on logging old-growth and mature trees. The U.S. Forest Service responded in 2023, when it ...

Conservationists say the outer region of Omo Forest Reserve, where logging is allowed, is already heavily deforested.As trees become scarce, loggers are heading deep into the 212-square-mile ...

Logging in disguise: How forest thinning is making wildfires worse The U.S. Forest Service clears trees from public lands in the name of fire prevention, but it doesn’t work.

Reforestation works by going into a forest plot that's been damaged (by wildfire, for instance), removing any remaining standing trees in a process called salvage logging, and planting new ones.

The first commercial timber sales of the Penn Butte and Late Mungers wildlands are scheduled to begin May 15. Thousands of acres of land have already been logged under these Oregon projects ...

Logging opponents point to guidance in the county’s own Forest Health Plan, which was published last year. The plan advises the county to “promote larger diameter and fire-resistant trees such ...

Old-growth trees in Tongass National Forest, ... at more than half-a-billion board feet — enough to fill at least 100,000 log trucks. Other trees were bigger and more accessible than the Sitka ...

Doug Leyva, timber and fuels program manager for the White River National Forest, said that forest has been fairly steady in terms of logging about 30,000 to 40,000 ccf a year over the last five ...