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

In a win for conservation groups, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Forest Service from relying on a decades-old exemption to ...

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

These findings underscore the critical importance of protecting remaining pristine tropical rainforests rather than relying ...

A new study is offering fuel for the increasingly political debate over fire risk and fire prevention. President Donald Trump recently called for more logging on federal lands, both to promote timber ...

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 ...

Logging and the trucking of wood supports 9,366 Maine jobs either directly or indirectly, as well as a range of industries and communities across Maine, according to a new analysis of the most recent ...

Flying across the hundreds of islands that make up Solomon Islands, it's almost impossible not to see them. Patches of muddy and desolate ground in an otherwise lush and pristine green forest. They ...

For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that. OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a ...