Tye Sundt, with Weyerhaeuser, stands alongside a stack of harvested lumber, one of which has a smiley face spraypainted on it. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Tim McEntire, left, with Montana Logging ...

As a small crew worked last week cutting down timber in a spruce-fir forest south of Collbran on Grand Mesa, a rain cloud scudded overhead and moistened the scene. It was an isolated shower, though, ...

Timber helped build Oregon, but, since the 1990s, the state’s western counties have lost thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in annual revenue. For decades, much of the blame for the downturn ...

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, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Forest Industries executive vice president Rick Horton gave me a strong counterpoint to the views expressed in my Oct. 31 column, which highlighted the charge by some retired ...

OLYMPIA — There’s buried treasure in Seattle, and lawmakers want a say in who gets their hands on it. A forest of old-growth trees is submerged in Lake Washington, perfectly preserved and possibly ...

Facing pressure to increase timber harvests, the U.S. Forest Service is sidestepping rigorous environmental reviews and ...

HULETT—Jim Neiman says that the best-case scenario for his family’s timber mill at the base of the Bear Lodge Mountains is that it doesn’t shutter. The Crook County sawmill in 2022 shrunk to one shift ...

Illegal timber logging activity has become the leading factor contributing immensely to the degradation of the forest reserves in the Western North Region. Chiefs in the area, especially Nana Ofori ...