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.

Two years ago, Sealaska Corp. gave the Trump administration a prescription for managing the region’s millions of acres of forest. Open more areas to logging, the Alaska Native corporation urged, ...

Trump’s new law eliminates those protections, freeing loggers to cut big trees and leave behind the small ones. This will worsen existing tinderbox conditions, particularly in the West.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a memo on Friday ordering the expansion of American timber production on U.S. Forest Service land, including large areas of Big Sur. The order calls ...

Logging is not necessarily a dirty word in the environmental dictionary. There, I said it. Provided sustainable practices are used, namely the careful choice over what trees get chopped down, logging ...

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Rainy season may decrease activity Astoria residents may not have noticed something so constant over the years it has faded into the background: every day dozens of logging trucks rolling through town ...

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 the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that became ...