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 ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A federal judge yesterday denied the latest request from environmentalists to impose an emergency halt to salvage logging in an old growth forest reserve burned in the 2002 ...

Forest scientists walk through a Helene blowdown in the Pisgah National Forest. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization ...

Post-burn salvage-logging is believed by many foresters and scientists to be one of the most ecologically dangerous practices in modern forestry, and is a deceptive excuse for timber companies to ...

A federal judge has halted U.S. Forest Service plans to log portions of the Willamette National Forest near Breitenbush Hot Springs and Detroit Lake that were affected by the 2020 Labor Fires. This ...

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 ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – (KTVZ) -- The recovery of the fisher, a charismatic, long-tailed forest carnivore, will likely be hindered by the increasing frequency and intensity of future wildfires, new research ...

Cutting along Hwy 46 adjacent to the Breitenbush River. The Forest Service has agreed to end most salvage logging in two Oregon forest projects and pay $115,000 in litigation costs to settle an ...

An appeals court Thursday lifted its injunction barring salvage logging from the site of the nation’s worst wildfire in 2002 — an issue that has pitted environmentalists against the timber industry ...

The state is proposing to salvage log at least 3,600 acres of trees in the Santiam State Forest that were harmed by September's Beachie Creek, Lionshead and Riverside wildfires. The Oregon Department ...