In western Oregon, public forests that once fueled rural prosperity — and later came under strict habitat protections that sharply reduced logging and local revenues — are again at the center of a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It didn’t get much notice, but President Donald Trump has turbocharged logging on public lands in ways that are likely to increase dangerous wildfire. Inside ...

Editor's note: In honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Statesman Journal and its sister publication, The Register-Guard, are embarking on a yearlong ...

New federal laws could “lock up” timber land for decades at a time, raising concerns big companies could elbow out smaller competitors and that timber revenue for counties could be delayed for years.

Timber harvests would be taxed based on value, rather than log volume, under a controversial Oregon bill that aims to raise more money for wildfire protection. For the past three decades, Oregon ...

A federal appeals court has sided with environmental groups over logging private land that was once part of the Elliott State Forest. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed a 2022 ...

The Republican-backed budget bill that passed in the U.S. Senate Tuesday authorizes dramatic increases to logging on federal lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. But ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Illegal logging has fallen by 22 percent worldwide in the past decade but remains a huge problem from Brazil to Indonesia, a study showed on Thursday. It also said that China was the ...