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  • Salvage logging speeds up

    With the Forest Service’s Biscuit Fire salvage logging program acknowledged to be a failure, Oregon Reps. Greg Walden and Gordon Smith want to speed up future post-fire logging

    by Emma Brown, Oct 17, 2005

  • Don Ewy is no timber beast

    Environmentalist, logger and HCN reader Don Ewy wonders who vandalized the bulldozer he used to selectively log trees in the North Fork State Forest in Colorado.

    by Rebecca Clarren, Feb 12, 2001

  • U.S. mills fall under Canadian ax

    In the new global economy, U.S. sawmills are going out of business, unable to compete with cheap timber coming from Canada, where environmental regulations are much looser.

    by Matt Jenkins, Mar 26, 2001

  • Two laws collide in the Northwest woods

    Stimson Lumber Company says the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act entitles it to build at least 21 miles of new road through endangered species habitat in the Selkirk Range of Idaho and Washington.

    by Kirsten Bovee, Mar 26, 2001

  • Sierra loggers get the ax

    Cecil Wetsel and other mill operators and loggers in towns like El Dorado Hills, California, warn that the Framework's timber cutbacks may harm the forest as well as the local economy.

    by Haley Nolde, Aug 27, 2001
  • While you were voting …

    While you were voting …

    While the nation is distracted by the election, the Bush administration races ahead with environmental policy changes.

    by Sarah Gilman , Nov 04, 2008

  • Forests could lose environmental review

    Some congressional conservatives are trying to eliminate the analysis of forest-thinning projects that is required by the National Environmental Policy Act.

    by Matt Jenkins, Oct 28, 2002

  • Logging for water creates a buzz

    In Colorado, a long-dead notion to clear-cut forests to increase water runoff is resurrected in a time of drought.

    by Robyn Morrison, Dec 23, 2002

  • Timber proposal undercuts Quincy Library plan

    Members of California’s Quincy Library Group are fighting Forest Service plans for logging the Plumas and Lassen national forests.

    by Jane Braxton Little, Feb 17, 2003

  • County votes to control private-land logging

    Costilla County in Colorado's San Luis Valley is trying to prevent a rancher from logging trees at the top of the watershed.

    by Elizabeth Manning, Jun 12, 1995
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