Discussions about how to best manage Washington forests often get heated. And nothing seems to incite a more negative response than the idea of clear-cutting. In a recent Seattle Times article, there ...
"This challenges a rule that was used to support a legacy approach that clearly isn't working." Federal judge shuts down ...
Residents of North Adams, Massachusetts, are speaking out against a plan to address invasive species and other concerns in woodlands by a drinking water source and hiking trail. The controversy ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The executive order does not directly call for 280 million acres of national forests and other protected public lands to be ...
Trump's order claims that "heavy-handed federal policies" have made the U.S. dependent on foreign timber and that increased logging is necessary for national and economic security. The directive ...
Clear-cutting forests doesn’t just raise flood risk — it can supercharge it. UBC researchers found that in certain watersheds, floods became up to 18 times more frequent and over twice as severe after ...
Recent controversy over the management of Washington’s older state-owned forests has been dominated by an either/or framework: Either we clear-cut these tracts or prevent any harvest at all. Cut it ...