Nielsen Brothers plans to cut 54 acres of timber directly behind the community of 83 homes. Locals said they were never consulted. CONCRETE — A hillside rises 1,300 feet within less than a mile, right ...

It takes a lot to fly pine trees off a mountain, but the cost of leaving them might be greater still. At least that has been the driving calculation behind the Bill Williams Mountain Restoration ...

PORTLAND -- The Oregon Board of Forestry is considering changing the rules for logging on private timberlands to make it easier for timber companies to cut on steep slopes where landslides may occur.

Public land advocates won a partial victory at the head of the rugged Nolichucky River gorge recently, but the scars remain ...

After heavy rains triggered fatal landslides in 1996, Oregon rewrote its rules on where logging can happen in landslide-prone areas. Oregon forestry rules now say you can't log in areas with where ...

A coalition of five groups is asking a federal court to immediately halt clear-cutting on steep, landslide-prone slopes and prevent the state from permitting logging that could harm coho streams. The ...

State rules for logging steep, unstable hillsides will see some language changes under a proposal from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. The regulatory amendments were prompted by concerns ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— Resolving multiyear litigation over the harms of logging to coho salmon, conservation groups reached an agreement today with the Oregon Department of Forestry to greatly expand stream ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Oregon Department of Forestry and the National Marine Fisheries Service issued a draft environmental impact statement today for a habitat conservation plan that regulates logging ...