HOLY OLD MACKINAW—Stewart H. Holbrook—Macmillan ($3). Big-scale U. S. logging goes back a little more than a century but covers a lot of ground. Last week Stewart Holbrook covered a lot of the ground ...

Merlin Durrah remembers well his tenure as a logger. Durrah, 74, entered the timber industry fresh out of high school, working mostly as a mechanic and truck driver. “I’ve hauled everything,” Durrah ...

GRANTS PASS - A timber company plans to start logging next week in an old-growth forest reserve burned by the 2002 Biscuit Fire, setting up a confrontation with environmentalists who believe leaving ...

GARDEN CITY — The Blue Earth County Fair is back in Garden City with plenty of attractions and entertainment. Among exhibitors is the Great Lakes Timber Show, a family-oriented show about old-time ...

On the edge of a dense forest on a rugged Australian island, an enormous stump rises from the ground -- all that remains of a eucalyptus tree that towered into the canopy for centuries. As wide as two ...

The death of an ancient cedar tree inside a remote park on Canada's Vancouver Island is being showcased by an environmental group seeking more protection against illegal loggers. The 800-year-old tree ...