Lang fears the draft forest management plan opens the door to future policies that encourage heavy logging. He and Cascadia ...

(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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An injured logger was successfully rescued from the Alsea Falls Recreation Area in Oregon Friday morning, authorities said. The accident was reported just after 11:30 a.m., ...

A Trump administration memorandum issued April 3 declared a state of emergency in timber supply and national forest health across the United States and the West, directing the U.S. Forest Service to ...

SALEM — Annual logging targets would be established for Oregon’s state forests under a bill meant to provide more certainty for timber companies and county governments. However, opponents of House ...

Trump administration officials intend to remove protections and open to some development more than 58 million acres of national forests across 40 states, including 2 million acres of national forests ...

A federal judge in U.S. District Court in Medford found the 34-year-old exemption to environmental review on some logging projects lacked statutory limits. A 34-year-old rule exempting some commercial ...

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 ...

Elliott Corbett Memorial State Park in the Deschutes National Forest, central Oregon. Pictured is primarily matrix land in the foreground, with late successional reserves in the background. (Lily Roby ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that the USDA memo’s emergency designation covers nearly 60% of Forest Service land, rolling back forest protections, as reported by the ...