For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that. OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a ...

As a small crew worked last week cutting down timber in a spruce-fir forest south of Collbran on Grand Mesa, a rain cloud scudded overhead and moistened the scene. It was an isolated shower, though, ...

HULETT—Jim Neiman says that the best-case scenario for his family’s timber mill at the base of the Bear Lodge Mountains is that it doesn’t shutter. The Crook County sawmill in 2022 shrunk to one shift ...

About 59% of all national forest lands in the U.S., including some in southern and central Arizona, would be open to logging under far fewer environmental restrictions than exist today, under a new ...

Minnesota Forest Industries executive vice president Rick Horton gave me a strong counterpoint to the views expressed in my Oct. 31 column, which highlighted the charge by some retired Department of ...

A new study links selective logging to clear-cutting in the Amazon rainforest. The research is significant because it identifies “an important indicator of rain forest vulnerability to clear-cutting ...

It’s a stickpin skyline: fire-blackened trees without leaves, needles or even branches as far as the eye can see. The quiet is deathly, until an 18-wheel logging truck roars out of the blackened woods ...

Commercial logging is making a comeback in the San Juan Mountains. Stagnant over the past decade, Matt Janowiak, district ranger for the U.S. Forest Service’s Columbine district, said timber sales ...

Tommy Fisk cuts down a black oak outside Eminence, Missouri on Dec. 14, 2017 (Zach Dyer) Loggers load up timber cut on Pioneer Forest land outside Eminence, Missouri on Dec. 14, 2017 (Zach Dyer) Gene ...