The devastating Rim Fire around Yosemite National Park has now rekindled a fierce fight over salvage logging. Some want to speed commercial removal of the wrecked timber left behind by the fire that ...

It's an unfortunate sight when storms, fire or other disasters destroy parts of the national forests. Congress should not compound the loss, which is often quite temporary, by encouraging salvage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Logged trees are piled along Highway 46, adjacent to the Breitenbush River. A federal judge has halted U.S. Forest Service plans ...

Salvage logging could speed up on fire-scarred federal land near Yosemite National Park, under an amended bill passed by a divided House on Wednesday. If the Senate goes along, the Yosemite-area ...

May 5—There is plenty to debate about salvage logging of burned trees after wildfires. The timber industry says it's important to cut down and remove still-usable trees before they rot and become ...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would make it easier for national-forest managers to authorize salvage logging, the harvest of timber in areas that have been hit by ...

Forest scientists walk through a Helene blowdown in the Pisgah National Forest. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization ...

There are many reasons why people may wish to salvage trees after wildfires like those that occurred in the western Cascades last September, including getting logs to the mill, recovering the economic ...

To hear Ken Bareilles tell it, the worst thing to happen on his land west of Healdsburg since the 2020 Walbridge Fire was the felling of charred Douglas fir trees that now lie on the ground, dried and ...