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 ...

EUREKA — The coronavirus has shut down most of Humboldt County, as it has the rest of the state, but some traditions of northwest California endure: Loggers keep felling redwoods, and eco-activists ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “God has cared for these trees …but he cannot save them from fools.” — John Muir In just two years, wildfire has killed an estimated 13% to 19% of all mature ...

When it comes to timber harvesting, removing the whole tree—from stump to twigs—doesn’t reduce plant diversity any more than old-fashioned logging, which leaves tree branches behind in the woods. As ...

The vast rainforest of the Congo Basin, one of the most important in the world, has long been protected by its remoteness: In many places, roads are rare. But there is a river. Raft by Raft, a ...

When it comes to timber harvesting, removing the whole tree -- from stump to twigs -- doesn't reduce plant diversity any more than old-fashioned logging, which leaves tree branches behind in the woods ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Meg Krawchuk of Oregon State University about the Biden administration's proposal to protect old growth forests. Old trees contain more carbon than younger trees. Trees ...

Kenyan President William Ruto lifted a five-year tree-logging freeze that boosted forest cover to a modest 8.8% in the East African nation that experiences routine drought. Removing the moratorium ...

Michigan Tech silviculturalists expected that plant diversity would go down in logging stands where whole trees had been removed, perhaps because the tops and branches leave some nitrogen behind to ...

PORT ANGELES — A tree-sit protest, which has blocked logging access to state Department of Natural Resources parcels, is now two weeks old. An injunction hearing regarding the parcels has been ...

A federal judge has thrown out an environmental lawsuit that claimed a 40,000-acre forest project in Eastern Oregon unlawfully authorized the harvest of large trees. In 2020, the U.S. Forest Service ...