Salvage is a word that is much in the air these days, not just in the woods, but also in the lecture halls of universities and in the marble corridors of Washington, D.C. It is a word of power, a ...

The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and MountainTrue, has filed a lawsuit ...

Salvage logging could speed up on fire-scarred federal land near Yosemite National Park, under an amended bill passed by a divided House on Wednesday. If the Senate goes along, the Yosemite-area ...

In the months after Hurricane Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah National Forest, John Beaudet and other volunteers cleared downed trees from the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Chopping ...

CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. (KOIN) — On Sept. 9, Oregon Rep. Greg Walden introduced a bill called the Scenic Columbia River Gorge Restoration Act that would allow salvage logging in the areas affected by the ...

As currently practiced, logging is responsible for large-scale destruction of tropical forests. Logging roads cut deep into pristine rainforests, opening up once remote areas to colonization, ...

One sore spot for people is the Columbia River Gorge. In an effort to help rehabilitate the land, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., has introduced a bill that would expedite a controversial logging ...

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - New plans call for reduced salvage logging on land that burned during a wildfire last summer in southwestern Oregon. The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest had eyed about 20 ...

Salvage logging, the practice of harvesting trees partly burned in forest fires, is not the unqualified economic boon that its supporters claim, according to a report by the Government Accountability ...

The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and MountainTrue, sued the U.S. Forest Service today after the agency refused to stop an unlawful logging ...