A 34-year-old rule exempting some commercial logging projects on federal lands from environmental review is unlawful, a ...
In a win for conservation groups, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Forest Service from relying on a decades-old exemption to approve large logging projects without environmental review.
A century-old redwood — California’s most revered tree — lies dead on the forest floor. Its trunk has been sawed into two large sections, a message scrawled on its stump in red marker: “STOP.” Beneath ...
A federal judge has thrown out an environmental lawsuit that claimed a 40,000-acre forest project in Eastern Oregon unlawfully authorized the harvest of large trees. In 2020, the U.S. Forest Service ...
The Forest Service didn’t make a ‘reasoned decision’ in using a categorical exclusion to exempt timber harvests from ...
An old-growth forest of noble fir trees at Marys Peak in Oregon's Coast Range. Beverly Law, CC BY-ND Mature and old-growth forests, with larger trees than younger forests, play an outsized role in ...
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Forestry, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and U.S. Forest Service recently renewed their agreement allowing continued work across boundaries to ...
On April 4, 2022, a federal court in Montana found that a large-scale logging project on public lands in the Castle Mountains in western Montana is unlawful. The project would have allowed 45 miles of ...