The Trump administration has prioritized increasing timber harvest in Oregon. Could it be part of a new era for timber in the ...

The Lolo National Forest is proposing to “salvage” log a portion of the 28,000-acre Liberty Burn near Seeley Lake, Montana. The Forest Service (FS) approved the logging using a categorical exclusion ...

For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that. OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana officials want to cut down some trees on state land south of Bozeman, but a group of ...

PORTLAND -- Bush administration plans to boost logging in Northwest national forests have collided with low timber prices blamed on the housing slump. The U.S. Forest Service is running short of money ...

Beth Nakamura / OPB For decades, the timber industry drove the economy in Oregon, a state where nearly half of the land is forest. Today, the industry has changed. Logging in federal forests, once a ...

PORT ANGELES — Dozens of protesters and counter-protesters lined U.S. Highway 101 to rally for or against the sale and logging of Aldwell timber, roughly 90 acres of what conservancy groups determined ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A timber company is challenging Montana’s sale of a logging deferral to a Bozeman group, arguing ...

Oregon's forests remain open for logging and timber sales during the novel coronavirus pandemic because forest products have been deemed part of "critical infrastructure," according to state and ...