Each year, Justin Lindholm uses about two-and-a-half gallons of gasoline to get through the winter. It’s just enough, he said, to power his chainsaw to chop the four to five cords of logs that fuel ...

Friday is the last day for the public to comment on the environmental impact statement of the draft National Old-Growth Amendment. The U.S. Forest Service is deciding how it will manage the remaining ...

Daniel Kim/Seattle Times via AP On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden stood among cherry blossoms and towering Douglas firs in a Seattle park to declare the importance of big, old trees. “There ...

The Gold Butterfly logging and burning project, east of Corvallis, Montana, is in wolverine and grizzly bear habitat and bull trout critical habitat in the Sapphire Mountains on the Bitterroot ...

Too young to save? The issue isn’t that Department of Natural Resources must log old trees to keep up with demand for wood. Most of the agency’s holdings consist of younger forests, many of which are ...

When Rick Bass first found himself in the area referred to as Unit 72 by the United States Forest Service, he felt desperate and unanchored. He was walking up what was once an overgrown logging road ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the trees’ pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny, more ...

Members of Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia want to conserve a pristine old-growth watershed, Caas Tl’aat Twah, in its traditional territory. The nation has obtained a logging deferral for Caas ...

Ever wondered why the United States Forest Service is part of the Department of Agriculture? Then you’ve also pondered a fundamental fact about how the government views trees in the United States.

A tree-sitter is protesting a timber sale in the Elwha River watershed, remaining perched 80 feet up. A judge declined to halt the sale, which aims to generate revenue for public schools.

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden stood among cherry blossoms and towering Douglas firs in a Seattle park ...