Two conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service alleging it unlawfully entered a contract to harvest timber near the ...

Summit County, CO ColoradoSalvage is a word that is much in the air these days, not just in the woods, but also in the lecture halls of universities and in the marble corridors of Washington, D.C. It ...

Salvage logging could speed up on fire-scarred federal land near Yosemite National Park, under an amended bill passed by a divided House on Wednesday. If the Senate goes along, the Yosemite-area ...

Salvage logging, the practice of harvesting trees partly burned in forest fires, is not the unqualified economic boon that its supporters claim, according to a report by the Government Accountability ...

The Stanislaus National Forest has released a detailed proposal for salvage logging from the Rim fire and is asking what the public thinks. The plan calls for removing dead trees from 29,648 of the ...

In the months after Hurricane Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah National Forest, John Beaudet and other volunteers cleared downed trees from the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Chopping ...

One sore spot for people is the Columbia River Gorge. In an effort to help rehabilitate the land, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., has introduced a bill that would expedite a controversial logging ...

Trees torch out on the edge of the Biscuit Fire Biscuit Fire map About 145,000 of the 400,000 acres burned in the Biscuit Fire, like this area in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness and South Kalmiopsis ...

Post-burn salvage-logging is believed by many foresters and scientists to be one of the most ecologically dangerous practices in modern forestry, and is a deceptive excuse for timber companies to ...

PORTLAND — Environmentalists want to reinstate an injunction against salvage logging on 1,800 acres in California’s Klamath National Forest while the federal government and a timber group argue the ...

PUBLIC LANDS — About 52 miles of roads in the 2015 Tower Fire area west of Priest River drainage remain closed for safety as salvage logging is scheduled to begin in July and last for up to three ...