BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include ...

BLM has contracted with small-scale logging firms to thin out the trees, whose loggers remove as many as 8,000 trunks per acre while leaving the large trees behind. “Those trees used to support the ...

DARBY, Mont. – What’s more important? Woodpeckers or textbooks? Mark one up for education on Montana’s Sula State Forest. Last summer’s wildfires scorched 87 percent of the 13,000-acre forest, and ...

Beverly Law receives funding from the Conservation Biology Institute. William Moomaw receives funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Mature and old-growth forests, with larger trees than younger ...

Justin Higginbottom / JPR News A logging company has canceled a proposed road within a Bureau of Land Management project in Josephine County. Activists had claimed that construction of the route ...

This is old-time logging, Kamps said. Chain saws whine in the winter-sharpened air. Skidders clank and bounce across the frozen ground. Logging trucks back into narrow alleys between 20-foot-high ...

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NACHES, Wash. - Nile Valley Days will combine modern entertainment with old-time logging games this weekend at Jim Sprick Park outside Naches. The two-day event, coordinated by the Chinook Pass ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration moved on Tuesday to conserve groves of old-growth trees on national forests across the U.S. and limit logging as climate change amplifies the threats ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit to stop the logging of centuries-old trees on the Oregon coast. The Bureau of Land Management is moving forward with the Blue and ...