Categorical exclusion six allows the Forest Service to authorize certain commercial logging projects without any ...

The Trump administration rescinded a longstanding rule meant to safeguard intact forests across the West on June 23 in a move that could open 2 million acres of Oregon forests to logging and ...

(CN) — A judge on Thursday put the brakes on a plan to harvest commercial timber on more than 13,000 acres of federal land in Oregon, pending a detailed environmental analysis. U.S. District Judge ...

Oregon is one of the world’s great tree-growing areas. The state’s soils and climate provide ideal conditions to grow such commercially viable species as Douglas fir and ponderosa pine. Forests cover ...

For a small but growing number of Oregon forestland buyers, timber output is no more than a potential byproduct. Their purchases are driven less by a desire for logs than for another resource flowing ...

The Roadless Rule is a U.S. Forest Service regulation that protects inventoried roadless areas from certain timber activities and construction within the national forest system, according to the U.S.

EASTERN OREGON — More than $7.4 million to support removal and transport of 417,308 tons of low-value trees and woody debris from national forests to processing facilities is being allocated to ...

President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies to increase logging on national forests nationwide, including in Washington state, counter to decades of environmental policy and protections. A ...

The U.S. Forest Service is going back to the drawing board with an update to the Northwest Forest Plan, a set of policies that broadly dictates where logging can occur on 25 million acres of forests ...

Dozens of homeless people who have been living in a national forest in central Oregon for years were being evicted Thursday by the U.S. Forest Service, as it closed the area for a wildfire prevention ...