PORTLAND – Bush Administration plans to boost logging in Northwest national forests have collided with low timber prices blamed on the housing slump. The U.S. Forest Service is running short of money ...

If you're somebody who lives here, almost everybody is touched in some way by the timber industry,” said Julia McCray.

Japanese companies are buying illegally-logged timber from Sarawak's endangered rainforests and labelling much of it as “legal” under a government-sanctioned certification scheme. In its latest report ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that. OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a ...

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 ...

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, ...

Oregon's forests remain open for logging and timber sales during the novel coronavirus pandemic because forest products have been deemed part of "critical infrastructure," according to state and ...

Laos Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong ordered authorities to crack down on illegal logging and timber trafficking in the midst of accelerating forest loss, reports the Vientiane Times. Under ...