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

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.

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

A federal judge vacated approvals for three major logging projects in Oregon and ruled that the U.S. Forest Service could not use a so-called “logging loophole” to approve large-scale timber projects ...

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 ...

Forest fog over the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southeastern Oregon. (U.S. Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Region/Flickr via Courthouse News) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — A dispute over three ...

Trump administration officials intend to remove protections and open to some development more than 58 million acres of national forests across 40 states, including 2 million acres of national forests ...

The Trump administration rescinded a longstanding rule meant to safeguard intact forests across the West on June 23 in a move that could open 2 million acres of Oregon forests to logging and ...

Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild and Umpqua Watersheds claim in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the agency violated multiple federal environmental laws through the authorization of the 42 Divide Forest ...

For a small but growing number of Oregon forestland buyers, timber output is no more than a potential byproduct. Their purchases are driven less by a desire for logs than for another resource flowing ...

The Roadless Rule is a U.S. Forest Service regulation that protects inventoried roadless areas from certain timber activities and construction within the national forest system, according to the U.S.

EASTERN OREGON — More than $7.4 million to support removal and transport of 417,308 tons of low-value trees and woody debris from national forests to processing facilities is being allocated to ...