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WASHINGTON — Around 40 activists converged at October Mountain State Forest Saturday to protest the state’s proposal to open bids to private companies to log on hundreds of acres here of forestland.
Officials in Oregon say they need to cut trees, including some healthy ones. The reaction shows how complex land management has become as forest health declines. By Anna Kramer Across a patch of the ...
ASHEVILLE, N.C.— A coalition of conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today for failing to protect endangered bats in the Nantahala-Pisgah national forests from massively expanded logging ...
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – A secretarial memo issued Friday by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins created an Emergency Situation Determination for 112,646,000 acres of national forest lands, ...
OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria — Roaring chain saws sent trees crashing to the ground, and bare-chested men hacked away at the branches beside a muddy road. Others heaved logs onto a truck, where they ...