The U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a plan to harvest over 5,000 acres of trees in the Tongass National Forest, ...

The U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a plan to harvest over five thousand acres of trees in the Tongass National Forest, just east of Ketchikan. A majority of that is going to be old-growth ...

A federal judge has struck down a long-standing U.S. Forest Service regulation that allowed the agency to approve tens of thousands of acres of commercial logging without conducting environmental ...

In a win for conservation groups, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Forest Service from relying on a decades-old exemption to approve large logging projects without environmental review.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — As crews continue to face off against a fast-moving wildfire in northern Colorado, some in the timber industry say the area’s fire danger has been heightened by U.S. Forest ...

A 34-year-old rule exempting some commercial logging projects on federal lands from environmental review is unlawful, a federal judge recently ruled. Judge Michael McShane in the U.S. District Court ...

Never in the history of this planet has a forest been logged back to health,” said the founder of a preservation group.

Forest rangers across New York responded to a mix of rescues, safety checks, and enforcement actions as part of their weekly patrols, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

The Forest Service didn’t make a ‘reasoned decision’ in using a categorical exclusion to exempt timber harvests from ...

Forest rangers with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation foiled an illegal logging operation while on patrol at the Honey Hill State Forest in Otsego County, ...