If you liked this story, share it with other people. Wood anatomist José Arlete Camargos identifying cedar wood log in Acre, Brazil. Photo credit: Project NIRS ID. A team of scientists at the ...

A study published in Environmental Research Letters indicates Amazonian forests probably can't provide enough timber to meet current longterm demands. This is true even if better logging practices are ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March aimed at revitalizing America’s timber industry by increasing logging on federal lands, streamlining permitting, and reducing regulatory ...

The F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber mill, located between Columbia Falls and Whitefish, processes timber from logging projects. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) The F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber mill, ...

Colubrina arborescens, or wild coffee, is an evergreen in Puerto Rico, the Florida Keys, Hawaii and the West Indies. Stanley Yankowski Cornus controversa, or giant dogwood, is native to China, the ...

Indonesia’s trade ministry has scrapped a requirement for wood exporters to obtain licenses verifying their wood comes from legal and sustainably managed sources. The SVLK verification system took a ...

Axe-throwers, chainsaw-wielders, pole-climbers and log-rollers flocked from all over the state to the annual Fourth of July Estacada Timber Festival. Families gathered on the lawn to cheer on their ...

Timber theft has been on the rise in Chile - particularly in its province of Arauco. Authorities in Chile’s southern province of Arauco have intercepted a string of trucks carrying massive loads of ...

Eleanor Dormontt works for The University of Adelaide and has consulted for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Her group has received funding from the International Tropical Timber ...