Log a Load for Kids in Rice Lake will provide $20,000 for patients of Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. Jeremy Stecker, of JATCO, watches from the cab of the processor as a tree is cut into ...

There has long been controversy regarding the adverse effects of logging, especially concerning the practice of whole-tree skidding, which removes the branches and treetrops of trees for electrical ...

Far beyond the Christmas tree farms, in forests and ravines, lie the woolly-barked nurse logs. At first glance they are simply fallen trees: the corpses of the woods. But now they live a second, ...

A recent article in the The Spokesman-Review (“Colville cutting down decades of decline,” Feb. 3) celebrated increased logging on the Colville National Forest. The main justification for logging is to ...

A harvester crane processes a log on a thinning project in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The project was led by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, the result of ...

“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 giant sequoia trees. These most massive of ...

Parts of this forest 60 miles west of Denver could use a thinning — on that locals, U.S. Forest Service staff, academic experts and even many environmentalists agree. The same could be said of ...