Tye Sundt, with Weyerhaeuser, stands alongside a stack of harvested lumber, one of which has a smiley face spraypainted on it. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Tim McEntire, left, with Montana Logging ...

As a small crew worked last week cutting down timber in a spruce-fir forest south of Collbran on Grand Mesa, a rain cloud scudded overhead and moistened the scene. It was an isolated shower, though, ...

LEWISTON – The budget reconciliation bill being debated in the U.S. Senate mandates a dramatic increase in federal timber sales. The Senate version of the bill calls for the U.S. Forest Service to ...

Never in the history of this planet has a forest been logged back to health,” said the founder of a preservation group.

Timber helped build Oregon, but, since the 1990s, the state’s western counties have lost thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in annual revenue. For decades, much of the blame for the downturn ...

Two years ago, Sealaska Corp. gave the Trump administration a prescription for managing the region’s millions of acres of forest. Open more areas to logging, the Alaska Native corporation urged, ...