COLVILLE, Wash. — Deep in the Colville National Forest in Eastern Washington state, Russ Vaagen is pointing to a delineation between woods that have been selectively thinned and those that haven’t.

The western United States is facing another destructive wildfire season, with more acres burned in Colorado alone in 2025 than in the past four years combined. If global warming continues on its ...

Since buying the property in 2022, the company’s plans to reduce logging on the land have stoked resentment within the local ...

Painted trilliums (Trillium undulatum) and similar species are sensitive forest wildflowers that are not frequently found in forests that are managed for timber. Photo by Jonathan Townsend We all use ...

Imported timber is coming into Australia at nearly half the price of domestically manufactured products and is increasingly ...

The threat of high-severity wildfires in forests controlled by private timber companies may be much greater than in those managed by public lands agencies, a new study has found. That risk was nearly ...

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — Deep in an industrial area of Spokane Valley, you might be surprised to find a modern two-story house, complete with a rooftop deck. Seemingly dropped from the sky, into a ...

Forests worldwide may be entering a new phase marked by fewer specialized tree species and more fast-growing generalists.

The U.S. Forest Service has announced it will not harvest timber from a 15-acre patch of North Carolina mountain forest that is the subject of a federal lawsuit. The Forest Service said in a June 21 ...

The U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a plan to harvest over five thousand acres of trees in the Tongass National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Klamath River is seen flowing across Northern California from atop Cade Mountain in the Klamath National Forest on March 3, ...

A sign for Allegheny National Forest, where local officials are pushing for more logging. Local officials are pushing for more logging in Pennsylvania’s only national forest, and the federal ...