Forestry

The Roadless Rule is a U.S. Forest Service regulation that protects inventoried roadless areas.

The Lomakatsi Youth Ecological Forestry Training and Employment Program gives high school students hands-on experience in ecological restoration. Despite federal funding challenges, the program has thrived this year.

For nearly a century, Washington’s timber industry produced everything from paper and two-by-fours to the massive wood beams that hold up the Tacoma Dome.Now, Trump wants to reduce foreign competition and increase U.S. logging to bring back those jobs.

The Board of Forestry has long had the power to hire and fire the state forester. Then lawmakers passed a bill transferring that authority to the governor.

Kaitlin Lovell, a lawyer, scientist and former manager of Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services, begins her four-year term as the agency’s director in early August.

For three years now, park ranger Sacha Wells has made “Ground Squirrel High School” an annual summer exhibit at the Lolo Pass Visitor Center. Last year’s theme was prom. This summer, it's spirit week, but it almost didn't happen.

The proposed budget bill would increase logging on federal lands, but most of that money won't go to Oregon counties that typically receive a portion of timber sales.

A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules.

Carbon credits are meant to help fight climate change by allowing companies to offset their emissions through projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere. But Seattle-based Mast Reforestation — a startup that raised millions to replant wildfire-scarred forests — is now facing a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it misled investors and partners about the value and viability of its carbon offset projects.

A year-long communication breakdown between concerned residents and state forestry leaders required investigation and halted one state timber sale.