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

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 ...

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.

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.

Environmental group celebrates temporary halt to logging but says more work is needed to permanently protect the old-growth ...