Forest

A federal agency said Wednesday it is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country’s largest national forest in southeast Alaska, the latest move in a long-running fight over the Tongass National Forest.

Mount Hood has proposed a permit system for people wishing to scale its summit. We hear from Deschutes National Forest on how the similar system they launched last year is faring.

The U.S. Forest Service is looking at something different — very different — to improve situational awareness at big wildfires: high-altitude balloons.

People can hit the trails again in parts of the Willamette National Forest that were closed for the past two years due to damage from wildfires.

A proposed lawsuit from Cascadia Wildlands, Center for Biological Diversity, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center and Western Environmental Law Center seeks to protect the marbled murrelet and coastal marten, which are both threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

A new forest management plan from the Bureau of Land Management in Medford will help speed up proposed projects. But local activists fear the plan could hurt forests and endangered species.

America's oldest trees store vast amounts of carbon. Counting them is the first step to preserving them, says the Biden administration.

The Biden administration plans to significantly increase efforts to stave off catastrophic wildfires that have been torching areas of the U.S. West by more aggressively thinning forests around areas where nature and neighborhoods collide.

Over 1,000 acres of crucial habitat on Mount Ashland will be preserved through a large grant to a nonprofit conservation group.

More than 100 countries are pledging to end deforestation in the coming decade.