Forestry

For some firefighters and timber executives, new roads in remote areas represent a promising policy change — while environmentalists and some hunters worry it could affect wildlife habitat for the worse.

A budget crisis a century in the making is coming to a head as Oregon's rural counties wait on Congress to approve funding they've long relied on.

Forest collaboratives formed in the wake of the Pacific Northwest’s “Timber Wars” have become major power players operating largely out of the public eye.

People have until Monday to comment on a Trump administration proposal to drastically limit public input on logging in Oregon and Washington.

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.