The U.S. Forest Service has announced it will not harvest timber from a 15-acre patch of North Carolina mountain forest that is the subject of a federal lawsuit. The Forest Service said in a June 21 ...
Throughout her two decades working on forestry issues, Jasmine Minbashian has often found herself at odds with the U.S. Forest Service and the timber industry. Her environmental activism started ...
Public input closes May 5 on a plan affecting 300+ acres, as past mining proposals near Lake Winona raised water and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A grizzly bear (Photo by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Program via FLICKR | Creative Commons ...
This map depicts the plan the U.S. Forest Service approved for the Thomas Bay timber sale. The yellow represents the available young growth stands. The brown areas are sections that will be harvested ...
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — Deep in an industrial area of Spokane Valley, you might be surprised to find a modern two-story house, complete with a rooftop deck. Seemingly dropped from the sky, into a ...
Answering these questions is far from straightforward, but it starts with where the wood is grown. Managing a forest sustainably involves balancing productivity with protection of water bodies, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 13—After a June 6 vote by the Washington state Forest Practices Board, a new rule could lead to 200,000 acres of private ...
Federal court found Forest Service relied on flawed analysis of impact on animals when it crafted forest plan favoring timber harvesting.
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. MountainTrue and the Center for Biological Diversity are suing the U.S. Forest ...
Two Western Montana conservation organizations announced this week they intend to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service alleging that a recently approved timber project in the Flathead ...