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

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 ...

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 ...

Environmental advocates claim the U.S. Bureau of Land Management unlawfully approved a Southern Oregon forest project that allows more than 6,000 acres of commercial thinning. The Cascadia Wildlands, ...

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 ...

The Trump administration rescinded a longstanding rule meant to safeguard intact forests across the West on June 23 in a move that could open 2 million acres of Oregon forests to logging and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

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 ...

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 ...

A niche rule established by the US Forest Service to justify the clearing of tens of thousands of acres of forest in the name of reducing wildfire risk was unlawfully created and applied, the Oregon ...

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.