Last week, the Department of Natural Resources announced it was putting the Riley Rotor timber sale, about five miles southwest of the Oso slide, on hold for “additional review.” The slopes are so ...

elkins, w.va.– Helicopter logging operations are scheduled to begin on or around March 28 in the West Fork Timber Sale north of Bartow in Pocahontas County on Monongahela National Forest. Two areas of ...

Helicopter logging is light on the land, but it's expensive. Just a few draws over, where the hillsides aren't so steep, the cheaper traditional mechanized logging is taking place.

On Thursday, the Banks Fire Department hosted multiple agencies to train loggers to call for a helicopter in case of an ...