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, ...

Jon Regan stands between two tree that sprung up from stump cut 15 years ago. Regan says his job, like the foresters who harvested timber from the site 15 years ago, is to make sure the process is ...

Unlike the Crime Scene Investigators from the popular TV series, these detectives are hired to look for evidence of rogue wood from stores increasingly worried about being duped by a global trade in ...

Joe Wilp climbs a narrow ladder, seats himself in a little crow’s-nest chair, and pulls levers. A greedy metal claw plucks a rough-barked log at least 3 feet in diameter from the truck bed, swings it ...

In former U.S. logging strongholds, museums and axe-wielding pros tell the story of forestry in the U.S. Lumberjacks compete in a logrolling contest at the Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show In Ketchikan, ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – The U.S. Forest Service lost more than $9 million by logging trees burned in the massive 2002 Biscuit fire in southwestern Oregon, a review coordinated by the World Wildlife Fund ...

For decades, Oregon’s timber industry has promoted the idea that private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem? Science doesn’t support that. OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a ...

Trump has announced a new set of tariffs on softwood lumber and timber imports. This will increase the costs of various goods ...

More than 1,500 trees will be removed from a Burlington-owned island over the next three years. The City Council on Tuesday approved a contract with J. Kubitz Logging for the sale of 1,585 trees from ...