Clearcut logging history of Deadman Creek and Joe Ross Creek watersheds. Credit: UBC Faculty of Forestry/David Leversee Loss of forest cover is associated with more frequent extreme flooding, as well ...
Clearcutting is an environmentally destructive but economically profitable way to log forests. Clearcutting and its related types of logging—i.e., seed tree and shelterwood cuts—remove most of the ...
WASHINGTON— The U.S. Forest Service announced a final plan today to eliminate roadless-rule protections in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, opening vast swaths of irreplaceable old-growth temperate ...
The state's forestry department is blaming unclear state rules -- not errors by loggers or state foresters -- for disputed logging practices conducted during a clearcut at a Boy Scout camp in ...
Loss of forest cover is associated with more frequent extreme flooding, as well as more frequent floods of any size, according to new UBC research. While it's widely thought that loss of forest cover ...