Categorical exclusion six allows the Forest Service to authorize certain commercial logging projects without any environmental analysis, but conservation groups say the agency exceeded its authority.

When the Oak Fire swept through more than 10,000 acres southwest of Yosemite National Park last weekend, it burned through forests where widespread logging, including commercial thinning, accelerated ...

An environmental group has filed suit in U.S. District Court to stop two commercial logging projects on the White Mountain National Forest, including the Peabody West Integrated Resource Project in ...

In the middle of yet another big wildfire seasons, some reporters finally listened to fire scientists when they quoted people like Dr. Higuera, an associate professor of fire ecology at the University ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A lawsuit brought by Montana conservationists has largely stopped commercial logging planned for ...

I would like to believe that Rep. Scott Tipton cares as much about the health of national forests as he claims in his recent effort at misdirection in The Durango Herald column, “The truth about ...

LOS ANGELES― A federal appeals court blocked a commercial logging project in a roadless area of the Los Padres National Forest today, siding with three conservation groups to protect 1,100 acres of ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In response to Dana Doran’s guest column last week about the commercial ...

PORTLAND — A federal judge has halted a 78-acre commercial timber harvest near Walton Lake in Oregon’s Ochoco National Forest at the urging of an environmental group. U.S. District Judge Michael ...

Yakutat is a community of about 600 people on the Gulf of Alaska coast in uppper the crook of the Southeast Alaska panhandle. (Emily Kwong/KCAW) Yakutat is a remote Gulf of Alaska village about ...

A controversial plan to expand logging in Yosemite National Park has been temporarily halted under a recent court order from a federal judge. The National Park Service has sought to allow logging ...