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Swaths of Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania could be on the chopping block as the federal government ...
Federal officials are moving forward with applications for oil and gas drilling within Ohio's only national forest.
Much of Southern Arizona’s Coronado National Forest and at least some of the Gila Wilderness are among more than 112 million ...
“As long as it’s a targeted salvage project whose aim is simply to remove dead and downed wood, that’s a worthy goal,” said ...
A coalition of Western North Carolina conservation organizations sued the U.S. Forest Service as the Trump administration has pushed for more timber harvesting.
Of the nearly 800,000 acres of trees that Helene downed, about 187,000 lie in national forests. Salvage logging — a practice ...
A new study led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden has uncovered a ...
The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, MountainTrue, and the North Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club had filed a letter with the Forest Service in December, urging the ...
A coalition of conservation groups today sued the Trump administration over the U.S. Forest Service’s Nantahala-Pisgah forest plan. The plan allows for a five-fold increase in logging that violates ...
An executive order issued Friday directs federal personnel to increase timber quotas by 25% on 113 million acres of national forests across the U.S.
"They are after timber," said Randi Spivak, public lands policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity, which says it will sue to try to stop specific projects under the declaration. "The ...
Environmental groups are sounding the alarm after the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared more than 100 million acres of ...