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The 71st North Star Expo features upwards of 100 exhibitors and several contests. WDIO's Sabrina Ullman participated in the ...
New research explains why forests planted for logging purposes fuel devastating wildfires more often than untouched land.
PORTLAND – Bush Administration plans to boost logging in Northwest national forests have collided with low timber prices blamed on the housing slump. The U.S. Forest Service is running short of money ...
WHITESBURG, Ky. – The crime scene — a once-wooded landscape marked by tire tracks and tree stumps — makes the victim, Verna Potter, feel physically violated. "It's just like someone cut your heart out ...
Curry County commissioners floated the idea of leasing tens of thousands of acres of federal land for logging. The U.S.
For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that. OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a ...
The push to sell carbon credits off state land comes at a tumultuous time for so-called voluntary carbon markets, which have ...
Japanese companies are buying illegally-logged timber from Sarawak's endangered rainforests and labelling much of it as “legal” under a government-sanctioned certification scheme. In its latest report ...
Beth Nakamura / OPB For decades, the timber industry drove the economy in Oregon, a state where nearly half of the land is forest. Today, the industry has changed. Logging in federal forests, once a ...
An Oregon sawmill has found itself in a tough spot after a judge blocked a logging project in the Willamette National Forest. U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin has stopped the harvest of trees in ...
Protected wood worth more than 14 million baht has been seized during a raid led by national park authorities on a warehouse ...