The United States Forest Service isn’t what you may think. The primary land management activity in which the Forest Service engages is selling public timber to private logging corporations, while ...

In 1995, Congress passed the now infamous “Salvage Rider,” which effectively suspended environmental safeguards for three years allowing the Forest Service to ramp up industrial logging and road ...

Montana Senator Daines announced that he intends to reintroduce wildfire legislation co-sponsored by California Senator Diane Feinstein that, among other things, would speed up and expand logging on ...

Blaine Cook, a retired U.S. Forest Service forest management scientist, is seen standing amid stumps of trees that were logged in the Black Hills National Forest, on July 14, 2021, near Custer City, S ...

A scene in the Pisgah National Forest. (Photo by Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press) This story was originally published by Carolina Public Press. Logging and sawmill operations across North Carolina ...

BRASILIA, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Brazilian environmental agents this week shut down schemes involving hundreds of companies the agents said were covering up illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, ...

Conservation groups are suing the U.S. Forest Service over its plans to log along hundreds of roads in the Willamette National Forest that burned in last year’s wildfires. The agency says the Beachie ...

An investigation begun in May this year by the Brazilian Federal Police highlighted “a major scheme facilitating the smuggling of rainforest products.” Between February 2020 and May 2021, close to 100 ...

As he stood amid the rubble of the town of Greenville, Gov. Gavin Newsom this month vowed to take proactive steps to protect California’s residents from increasingly devastating wildfires. “We ...

CUSTER CITY, 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 ...