The Town of Hunter was told at its September board meeting that it should take steps to oversee logging and tree-cutting in the town. Platte Clove resident Roy Silver told board members he is ...

May 5—There is plenty to debate about salvage logging of burned trees after wildfires. The timber industry says it's important to cut down and remove still-usable trees before they rot and become ...

A harvester crane processes a log on a thinning project in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The project was led by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, the result of ...

Log a Load for Kids in Rice Lake will provide $20,000 for patients of Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. Jeremy Stecker, of JATCO, watches from the cab of the processor as a tree is cut into ...

Observe standing trees and discuss tree grades. Practice tree scaling and grading on selected trees. Fell a tree and discuss bucking decisions to maximize the value of each log. Discuss and practice ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “God has cared for these trees …but he cannot save them from fools.” — John Muir In just two years, wildfire has killed an estimated 13% to 19% of all mature ...

A recent article in the The Spokesman-Review (“Colville cutting down decades of decline,” Feb. 3) celebrated increased logging on the Colville National Forest. The main justification for logging is to ...

The U.S. Forest Service was scheduled to present a plan Monday in Sisters to log trees that the Oregon Department of Transportation accidentally killed along a scenic drive. The culprit is an ...

While it’s been estimated that approximately 9 million trees were lost in the June 21 storm that swept through Bemidji, ...