PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — In a win for conservation groups, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Forest Service from relying on a ...

A federal judge has thrown out an environmental lawsuit that claimed a 40,000-acre forest project in Eastern Oregon unlawfully authorized the harvest of large trees. In 2020, the U.S. Forest Service ...

A federal judge has thrown out an environmental lawsuit that alleged a 40,000-acre forest project in Eastern Oregon unlawfully authorized logging of large trees. In 2020, the U.S. Forest Service ...

An old-growth forest of noble fir trees at Marys Peak in Oregon's Coast Range. Beverly Law, CC BY-ND Mature and old-growth forests, with larger trees than younger forests, play an outsized role in ...

(Photo courtesy of Pixabay | Public domain). A large logging project ended in an unusual way for many lawsuits involving logging, endangered species and federal agencies: It settled without years of ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a memo on Friday ordering the expansion of American timber production on U.S. Forest Service land, including large areas of Big Sur. The order calls ...

MISSOULA, Mont.— A federal judge today halted logging and road construction for the large Knotty Pine timber sale project in the Kootenai National Forest. The project threatens a small, imperiled ...

New federal laws could “lock up” timber land for decades at a time, raising concerns big companies could elbow out smaller competitors and that timber revenue for counties could be delayed for years.

Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system. They reduce the buildup of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and land degradation by ...