The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and MountainTrue, has filed a lawsuit ...

In the months after Hurricane Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah National Forest, John Beaudet and other volunteers cleared downed trees from the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Chopping ...

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 ...

Rising wildfire risk in the Pacific Northwest, combined with notoriously volatile timber pricing, may lower forestland values by as much as 50% and persuade plantation owners to harvest trees much ...

Post-burn salvage-logging is believed by many foresters and scientists to be one of the most ecologically dangerous practices in modern forestry, and is a deceptive excuse for timber companies to ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A federal judge yesterday denied the latest request from environmentalists to impose an emergency halt to salvage logging in an old growth forest reserve burned in the 2002 ...

Cutting along Hwy 46 adjacent to the Breitenbush River. The Forest Service has agreed to end most salvage logging in two Oregon forest projects and pay $115,000 in litigation costs to settle an ...

An appeals court Thursday lifted its injunction barring salvage logging from the site of the nation’s worst wildfire in 2002 — an issue that has pitted environmentalists against the timber industry ...

The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and MountainTrue, sued the U.S. Forest Service today after the agency refused to stop an unlawful logging ...