President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies to increase logging on national forests nationwide, including in Washington state, counter to decades of environmental policy and protections. A ...

A long-awaited policy on the forests that will become the next generation of old growth brought out many critics at the first ...

On his first day in office, Dave Upthegrove, the state’s new public lands commissioner, said he would pause logging sales in some older state-managed forests for about six months. In doing so, he’s ...

Rescinding the Roadless Area Conservation Rule could have economic benefits but also environmental drawbacks. In considering a proposal to remove the 2001 rule, federal officials must take a long-term ...

TACOMA – President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies to increase logging on national forests nationwide, including in Washington state, counter to decades of environmental policy and ...

Some of the wildest country in the U.S. is in Washington state's Cascade Range, reached by old logging and jeep roads that give way to high alpine trails. NPR's Brian Mann sends an audio postcard.

WASHINGTON — The state has paused the October Mountain State Forest logging and management project to determine whether the plan is climate friendly. The state Department of Conservation and ...

In this file photo from 2014, a staff member of the National Parks Conservation Association approaches the Highway 101 bridge during a rafting tour of the Elwha River. This area was underwater as part ...

A section of the Colville National Forest is shown in this file photo Steve Ringman The Seattle Times/TNS The Pacific Northwest is fortunate to have vast forests and ideal conditions for growing trees ...

When I quit logging and moved to Seattle in 1984 to go back to college, the spotted owl issue had heated up. The debate over preserving old growth set the environmentalists against the loggers, and I ...