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On clear days, looking across the waters of Puget Sound from Seattle, it’s possible to see a wall of snaggle-toothed, ...
The Evergreen State is home to five national forests. Trump wants to increase logging there by 25% in five years.
They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever ...
Nate Calmese will be remembered as one of the great mistakes of the Mike Hopkins coaching era of University of Washington basketball -- with everyone convinced ...
Washington state has announced its fee-free days for 2025, offering opportunities for residents and visitors to enjoy state ...
Many Forest Service staffers who were fired by the Trump administration in February have been reinstated to their jobs, but job security is another story.
I had gone into the forest to collect myself. For a sense of timelessness, amid trees here long before I got here, that would be here long after I'm gone. I should have known it wouldn’t turn out that ...
Timber industry insiders are increasingly concerned an estimated 100,000 tonnes of timber will be left to rot. But the ...
Mixed messages from Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, Forest Service employees on the ground have been getting mixed messages from ...
Government agencies, driven by a new push for efficiency under the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have slashed thousands of positions. At the same time, corporations from technology to ...
One fired employee who worked in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest told The Seattle Times he has taken a new job as a ...
Watson was among dozens of Forest Service employees in Washington who began a precarious return to work this week as the federal agency complied with orders from a civil service review board to ...