It's an unfortunate sight when storms, fire or other disasters destroy parts of the national forests. Congress should not compound the loss, which is often quite temporary, by encouraging salvage ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A federal judge yesterday denied the latest request from environmentalists to impose an emergency halt to salvage logging in an old growth forest reserve burned in the 2002 ...
May 5—There is plenty to debate about salvage logging of burned trees after wildfires. The timber industry says it's important to cut down and remove still-usable trees before they rot and become ...
PORTLAND — Environmentalists want to reinstate an injunction against salvage logging on 1,800 acres in California’s Klamath National Forest while the federal government and a timber group argue the ...
A federal judge has halted U.S. Forest Service plans to log portions of the Willamette National Forest near Breitenbush Hot Springs and Detroit Lake that were affected by the 2020 Labor Fires. This ...
The Lolo National Forest is proposing to “salvage” log a portion of the 28,000-acre Liberty Burn near Seeley Lake, Montana. The Forest Service (FS) approved the logging using a categorical exclusion ...
In the months after Hurricane Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah National Forest, John Beaudet and other volunteers cleared downed trees from the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Chopping ...
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would make it easier for national-forest managers to authorize salvage logging, the harvest of timber in areas that have been hit by ...
Forest scientists walk through a Helene blowdown in the Pisgah National Forest. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization ...
Salvage logging could speed up on fire-scarred federal land near Yosemite National Park, under an amended bill passed by a divided House on Wednesday. If the Senate goes along, the Yosemite-area ...
To hear Ken Bareilles tell it, the worst thing to happen on his land west of Healdsburg since the 2020 Walbridge Fire was the felling of charred Douglas fir trees that now lie on the ground, dried and ...