Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These local landholders hold the key to a valuable solution as the world tries to slow climate change – restoring deforested ...

A canopy of coniferous trees near Utah Ridge Pond in Wayne National Forest is seen from below. The Trump administration wants to increase timber harvesting in the more than 100 million acres of ...

COLVILLE, Wash. — Deep in the Colville National Forest in Eastern Washington state, Russ Vaagen is pointing to a delineation between woods that have been selectively thinned and those that haven’t.

Florida isn’t just about beaches and theme parks; it’s a powerhouse of timber and grit. A fresh study from the University of ...

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prolonged, many of those ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves.

MISSOULA, Mont. — Lolo National Forest's Seeley Lake Ranger District Office is getting rid of hazardous trees. Forest officials sold timber to Bull Mountain Forestry on roughly 40 acres, including ...

The threat of high-severity wildfires in forests controlled by private timber companies may be much greater than in those managed by public lands agencies, a new study has found. That risk was nearly ...

The Environmental Protection Information Center is sounding the alarm about a U.S. Forest Service vegetation management plan ...