President Donald Trump on March 1 ordered expanded timber production, and the new Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, ...

Of the nearly 800,000 acres of trees that Helene downed, about 187,000 lie in national forests. Salvage logging — a practice ...

Volunteers, scientists, and hikers are asking for transparency in a process they say could prioritize profit over ecosystems.

One advocate called the federal government’s use of emergency powers to boost timber production “a deliberate attempt to ...

In a statement, the agency said Trump’s directive to loosen logging restrictions “currently” won’t “directly impact” Muir ...

The USDA wants to open 59% more forest area to logging in the United States. It may not come fast enough to save one of ...

directing the U.S. Forest Service to streamline environmental reviews to increase logging that could have a big impact on ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did not mention climate change in Friday's directive, which called on her staff to speed ...

For all the administration’s talk of boosting the wood industry and saving local economies, the timber gains from national ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a memo on Friday ordering the expansion of American timber production on U.S. Forest Service land, including large areas of Big Sur. The order ...

The Trump administration is speeding up environmental reviews of logging projects on more than half of the country’s national forests, including parts of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in ...