While the piece did not call for a broad expansion of logging, I think it’s important for readers to understand these facts. Industrial logging and wood production are major drivers of climate ...

Mar. 20—Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders to increase logging in national forests and on other federal lands. Trump's orders direct federal agencies to set ...

Trump’s new law eliminates those protections, freeing loggers to cut big trees and leave behind the small ones. This will ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Researchers are using tree-ring dating to determine not only when trees were cut down to build historic log buildings in the region but also what the forests were like before European immigrants ...

When a forest burns, the aftermath is a post-apocalyptic landscape of smoldering black trunks. The forest’s managers, whether they work for the U.S. Forest Service or for private companies, sometimes ...

The role of tree DNA tracking is increasing in the fight against illegal logging as evidenced by prosecution cases in USA and Germany. Modern DNA technology offers a unique opportunity: you could ...