Two loggers - one from Bend - and a forest road builder have been chosen as Operators of The Year for their respective region ...

Philomath-based Emerald Valley Thinning earned a state merit award for safely harvesting steep Coast Range slopes using ...

After seven decades in operation, the Oregon Logging Conference was a combination of something old and something new this year. "A Seventy-Year Tradition — Forestry, Equipment, Education," was the ...

The Trump administration rescinded a longstanding rule meant to safeguard intact forests across the West on June 23 in a move that could open 2 million acres of Oregon forests to logging and ...

A fire crew with a brush tender works on suppressing the Rail Ridge Fire, which has been burning south of Dayville since Sept. 2. Oregon's federal lawmakers are divided on the merits of a proposal to ...

SALEM — Annual logging targets would be established for Oregon’s state forests under a bill meant to provide more certainty for timber companies and county governments. However, opponents of House ...

A state forest plan that aims to protect endangered species across 640,000 acres of forestland west of the Cascades while providing certainty for logging is moving toward its final stages. The ...

A prescribed burn is used to thin the understory of a forest without damaging the taller trees. An environmental lawsuit is targeting an Idaho forest project that involves logging 19,900 acres and ...

The protest is attempting to stop logging expected to start next week. A group of about 25 community activists in southern Oregon are holding what they call a blockade to stop an already approved ...

Thirty years after Oregon lawmakers began giving the state’s timber industry tax cuts that cost rural counties an estimated $3 billion, industry lobbyists warned them not to follow through on efforts ...

A federal judge has halted U.S. Forest Service plans to log part of the Willamette National Forest burned by last summer’s wildfires after a lawsuit filed by environmentalists. The ruling Friday by ...