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 ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It didn’t get much notice, but President Donald Trump has turbocharged logging on public lands in ways that are likely to increase dangerous wildfire. Inside ...
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 ...
Large ponderosa pines have been marked for removal as part of a fire preparedness project, but conservation group Oregon Wild says they should be spared. Jamie Dawson with the conservation group ...
With the right equipment and a little luck, stealing a tree from a swath of land as remote and vast as the Olympic National Forest should have been easy enough. In the summer of 2018, Justin Wilke, a ...
Too young to save? The issue isn’t that Department of Natural Resources must log old trees to keep up with demand for wood. Most of the agency’s holdings consist of younger forests, many of which are ...
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, ...
Note: All visuals by Paul Robert Wolf Wilson. Story and interviews by Erin X. Wong. On April 1, activists from the group Pacific Northwest Forest Defense ascended into the uppermost branches of an ...