Facing pressure to increase timber harvests, the U.S. Forest Service is sidestepping rigorous environmental reviews and ...

In the months after Hurricane Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah National Forest, John Beaudet and other volunteers cleared downed trees from the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Chopping ...

Forests damaged by wildfire on the Colville Indian Reservation. (Rian Dundon/Oregon Capital Chronicle) The fires that burned down the Santiam Canyon over Labor Day weekend in 2020 were a disaster for ...

Proponents and critics of logging rarely agree on the impacts of timber harvesting on wildfire risk, biological diversity, ...

Categorical exclusion six allows the Forest Service to authorize certain commercial logging projects without any ...

Chad Hanson is an ecologist with the John Muir Project and the author of Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate (University Press Kentucky, May 2021). Earlier this ...

The project called for a network of clear-cuts, logging and prescribed fire across a 40,000-acre swath of the Custer Gallatin ...

The Allegheny National Forest encompasses more than 500,000 acres in four counties and is the only national forest in Pennsylvania. The Allegheny National Forest is set to ramp up logging by more than ...

The Liberty Trail on Mt. Chocorua is one of the most popular hiking paths in the White Mountain National Forest. The trail, flanked by thick woods, laces through the Sandwich Range, a swath of public ...

Old-growth forests that have been alive since the 1600s were found in a logging zone, placing them at risk, according to ...

OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria — Roaring chain saws sent trees crashing to the ground, and bare-chested men hacked away at the branches beside a muddy road. Others heaved logs onto a truck, where they ...