Proponents and critics of logging rarely agree on the impacts of timber harvesting on wildfire risk, biological diversity, ...

The Allegheny National Forest encompasses more than 500,000 acres in four counties and is the only national forest in Pennsylvania. The Allegheny National Forest is set to ramp up logging by more than ...

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

Chad Hanson is an ecologist with the John Muir Project and the author of Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate (University Press Kentucky, May 2021). Earlier this ...

Facing pressure to increase timber harvests, the U.S. Forest Service is sidestepping rigorous environmental reviews and ...

CUSTER, S.D. — Looking down a hillside dotted with large stumps and nearly devoid of trees, a pair of retired U.S. Forest Service employees lamented logging policies they helped craft to deal with two ...

Trees slated for cutting in the next round of logging are marked with blue blazes. Courtesy photo from Diane Solomon. A winter logging job that created canopy openings in sections of the roughly ...

After months of delays, logging crews are about ready to reenter Jackson Demonstration State Forest to collect cut timber, but there won’t be any new trees felled in the foreseeable future. After ...

OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria — Roaring chain saws sent trees crashing to the ground, and bare-chested men hacked away at the branches beside a muddy road. Others heaved logs onto a truck, where they ...

Logging and forest regeneration projects have prompted the closure of rights of way near Sunlight Mountain, according to a U.S. Forest Service news release. Fourmile Road (FSR 300) is closed to all ...

“Our work to safely restore public access to areas burned in the 2020 Labor Day fires continues to be top priority,” Warnack said. “Upon withdrawal of this decision, my staff will conduct another ...