Locals are pushing back against a logging proposal near Yellowstone.

Thirty years ago, fuels-reduction work in the national forests to prevent mega-fires was promoted like a religious revival. It involved logging projects focusing on thinning forests to mitigate the ...

So says Bob Selzler as he pulls the heavy choker cable toward the next large ponderosa pine stretched out across the forest floor. “Logging is really all I know.” With a practiced ease, he wraps the ...

The West has seen some really big forest fires recently, particularly in California’s Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Naturally, everyone is concerned and elected officials are ...

The whir of a disc-saw echoed across Palomar Mountain on a recent December afternoon as loggers cut down hundreds of white fir and incense cedar on a steep hillside dotted with rustic homes. It’s a ...