It was the same old story year after year. Jim Hurst would gather his employees for the lumber mill's annual meeting in a big equipment building next to the mill. Each year, Owens & Hurst's co-owner ...

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 ...

Beth Nakamura / OPB For decades, the timber industry drove the economy in Oregon, a state where nearly half of the land is forest. Today, the industry has changed. Logging in federal forests, once a ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. – The crime scene — a once-wooded landscape marked by tire tracks and tree stumps — makes the victim, Verna Potter, feel physically violated. "It's just like someone cut your heart out ...

Logging is not necessarily a dirty word in the environmental dictionary. There, I said it. Provided sustainable practices are used, namely the careful choice over what trees get chopped down, logging ...

Another Trump administration proposal is taking aim at public lands — this time through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In a Monday announcement, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said ...