A harvester crane processes a log on a thinning project in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The project was led by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, the result of ...

A federal judge blocked a U.S. Forest Service plan to log hazard trees along 400 miles of road in Willamette National Forest this week, dealing a blow to the agency’s plan for reopening 170,000 acres ...

Log a Load for Kids in Rice Lake will provide $20,000 for patients of Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. Jeremy Stecker, of JATCO, watches from the cab of the processor as a tree is cut into ...

Last year’s record-breaking Rim Fire left thousands of acres of dead trees around Yosemite National Park. What to do about those trees has sparked a fierce debate. Later this week, the U.S. Forest ...

The U.S. Forest Service was scheduled to present a plan Monday in Sisters to log trees that the Oregon Department of Transportation accidentally killed along a scenic drive. The culprit is an ...

A recent article in the The Spokesman-Review (“Colville cutting down decades of decline,” Feb. 3) celebrated increased logging on the Colville National Forest. The main justification for logging is to ...

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Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Even Christmas trees, a symbol of the holiday spirit, are tainted by controversy. Cutting a live ...

The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday unveiled a salvage logging operation for more than 15,000 acres of trees burned in last summer’s Rim Fire. The plan -- which calls for removing an additional ...