If Oregon has a “brand,” protection of its environment has to be integral to it. Probably no political figure in the state’s ...

Environmental groups -- and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals -- say the roads need permits to help reduce sediment pollution in vulnerable streams. The timber industry and its backers say permits ...

The Bureau of Land Management undertook a proper risk assessment for endangered birds’ nesting grounds when it approved a ...

Failing logging roads, and the mud and pollution they spew into our rivers, have been a major factor in the decline of wild salmon and steelhead -- particularly in Oregon's Coast Range.

Winter is one of the attorneys suing to force Oregon and other states and logging companies to get pollution permits to control runoff from timber operations.

Campaign commercials in southern Oregon by Rep. Greg Walden (R), sponsor of the Bush forest plan in the House, focus on the urgent economic and environmental need for post-fire salvage logging. A ...

ROSEBURG, Ore. — A longtime advocate for increased logging on federal lands that provide subsidies to counties in western Oregon is retiring from public office — but not from the struggle over ...

The Oregon Board of Forestry is proposing a new streamside logging or "riparian zone" rule that would increase the protected areas around waters that are home to salmon, steelhead and bull trout.

Environment Oregon’s Logging Industry Says It Can’t Afford New Taxes. But Prices Have Never Been Higher and Profits Are Soaring. Lobbyists claim the timber industry is "up against the ropes ...

A lawsuit filed Wednesday argues the Oregon Department of Forestry is hurting protected coho salmon with its logging practices on state forests.

PORTLAND — An Eastern Oregon logging outfit and a lumber mill are requesting the dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit against them, arguing that allegations they’ve suppressed competition are ...