The United States has announced sweeping changes to encourage more logging in the country's national forests. A new emergency order requires rolling back environmental protections on almost 60% of the ...

TAOS — Every wood chip, bark strip and beam at Olguin’s Sawmill and Firewood is put to use. The scraps of bark-covered wood left behind from making vigas, latillas and beams are cut into firewood.

Lang fears the draft forest management plan opens the door to future policies that encourage heavy logging. He and Cascadia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new directive from federal agricultural officials could mean more logging and destruction of natural habitats in Kentucky’s ...

The sun descends over Mt. Pisgah campground in North Carolina. (Debbie Webber/U.S. Forest Service) (CN) — A coalition of conservation groups is suing the Trump administration over plans to increase ...

A before-and-after study of wildfires in the Plumas National Forest compared private timber land with public lands. The results: The orderly arrangement of trees planted for logging leads to more ...

Trees in New York’s only national forest could be cut down at an accelerated rate under an order by President Donald Trump to increase timber production in national forests by 25 percent. The Finger ...

FILE - Workers for Northern Clearing remove trees on an existing Central Maine Power electricity corridor that has been widened to make way for new utility poles, April 26, 2021, near Bingham, Maine.

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest. Developed by the University of Sheffield, the technology uses satellite ...

The United States has announced sweeping changes to encourage more logging in the country's national forests. A new emergency order requires rolling back environmental protections on almost 60% of the ...