Spectators look on from Island Avenue in Island City during the Ag-Timber Parade Friday, May 21, 2021. Six conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, June 14, 2022, seeking to prevent the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It didn’t get much notice, but President Donald Trump has turbocharged logging on public lands in ways that are likely to increase dangerous wildfire. Inside ...

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, ...

Too young to save? The issue isn’t that Department of Natural Resources must log old trees to keep up with demand for wood. Most of the agency’s holdings consist of younger forests, many of which are ...

In an early March executive action, he ordered his administration to ramp up logging in our public forests, including those ...

The Bureau of Land Management has withdrawn a controversial timber project near Eugene after three environmental groups filed a lawsuit last November. The Big League Project included logging, thinning ...

In western Oregon, public forests that once fueled rural prosperity — and later came under strict habitat protections that sharply reduced logging and local revenues — are again at the center of a ...

Editor's note: In honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Statesman Journal and its sister publication, The Register-Guard, are embarking on a yearlong ...

At a recent gathering of Whatcom tree farmers to celebrate the WA Tree Farmer of the Year, Tom Westergreen described their work planting and logging trees as a “way of life” that needs to be protected ...

The role of tree DNA tracking is increasing in the fight against illegal logging as evidenced by prosecution cases in USA and Germany. Modern DNA technology offers a unique opportunity: you could ...