Categorical exclusion six allows the Forest Service to authorize certain commercial logging projects without any ...

Visiting a freshly logged forest in western Oregon earlier this fall, retired federal wildlife surveyor Erich Reeder stepped ...

Environmentalists sued several federal agencies Tuesday in a bid to stop a timber harvest in southwestern Oregon they fear ...

However, the federal agency, as well as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, fell short of properly analyzing the effect on ...

Two loggers - one from Bend - and a forest road builder have been chosen as Operators of The Year for their respective region of Oregon. Three regional advisory committees to the Oregon Board of ...

The Trump administration rescinded a longstanding rule meant to safeguard intact forests across the West on June 23 in a move that could open 2 million acres of Oregon forests to logging and ...

For a small but growing number of Oregon forestland buyers, timber output is no more than a potential byproduct. Their purchases are driven less by a desire for logs than for another resource flowing ...

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 ...

EASTERN OREGON — More than $7.4 million to support removal and transport of 417,308 tons of low-value trees and woody debris from national forests to processing facilities is being allocated to ...

President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies to increase logging on national forests nationwide, including in Washington state, counter to decades of environmental policy and protections. A ...

Dozens of homeless people who have been living in a national forest in central Oregon for years were being evicted Thursday by the U.S. Forest Service, as it closed the area for a wildfire prevention ...

The Roadless Rule is a U.S. Forest Service regulation that protects inventoried roadless areas from certain timber activities and construction within the national forest system, according to the U.S.