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 ...

Facing budget strains, loggers, elected officials and environmentalists rebuked Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove on ...

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

Can Washington state hold off harvesting older forests in the face of a projected $12 billion budget deficit without impacting local governments and school districts that get money from those timber ...

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — On the 40th night of the protest, a black Jeep drove up a logging road and stopped near the base of a towering grand fir. For more than a month, environmental activists had been ...

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 ...

The Pacific Northwest is fortunate to have vast forests and ideal conditions for growing trees quickly. These forests have long been a cornerstone of our rural economies while also protecting streams, ...

MOUNT WASHINGTON — A forest scientist says that a stand of sugar maples in an area slated for logging by the state should be “defended” for its climate-cooling features. Lee E. Frelich, director of ...