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The Society of American Foresters will bring collegiate and professional logger competitors to Missoula for the 28th annual ...
A voracious insect called the spruce budworm was ravaging Maine’s North Woods, killing mountainsides of balsam fir and red ...
BILLINGS — President Donald Trump's administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects ...
Inside, though, the South Solon Meeting House has a secret unknown even to some who drive through the tiny Maine town every day. The interior of the building is covered in 70-year-old fresco murals ...
Nothing heralds the arrival of spring quite like a carpet of flowers adorning the forest floor, with sunlight filtering ...
Trump signed an executive order to increase timber production in the U.S. However, the timber industry has led to negative ...
From the southwestern U.S. to Minnesota, Iowa and even parts of New Jersey, it was a dismal winter. Many communities marked record dryness between December and the end of February.
Under Biden, the Forest Service sought to more intensively manage national forests in the West, by speeding up wildfire protection work including logging in so-called “priority landscapes ...
"Markets have moved on. The future lies in plantations and large scale rewilding and ecological restoration, not logging old growth forests." "The Regional Forest Agreements have shielded this ...
In 2024, the SELC brought a lawsuit alleging that the Forest Service's "timber targets" — meaning national goals for logging sales — break the National Environmental Policy Act. The SELC has ...
A new directive from federal agricultural officials could mean more logging and destruction of natural habitats in Kentucky’s 708,000-acre Daniel Boone National Forest, environmental groups ...
A follow-up letter from the U.S. Forest Service called for an increase of 25% in the volume of timber being offered for logging. Flooding fears rise as saturated rivers swell; death toll at 19 ...