A century-old redwood — California’s most revered tree — lies dead on the forest floor. Its trunk has been sawed into two large sections, a message scrawled on its stump in red marker: “STOP.” Beneath ...

The USDA's order for the U.S. Forest Service to increase lumber production by 25% is being panned as both unwise and infeasible in Southern California's sprawling national forests due to a lack of ...

The whir of a disc-saw echoed across Palomar Mountain on a recent December afternoon as loggers cut down hundreds of white fir and incense cedar on a steep hillside dotted with rustic homes. It’s a ...

The cold, clear waters of Blue Creek provide vital habitat for salmon. (Godofredo A. Vásquez / Associated Press) Along the Klamath River in Northern California, where logging companies once cut ...

Michael Hunter slammed a mallet onto a hand-held drum, the beats ringing out in rapid succession. Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! “The drum is always loud enough it seems like,” he said, “where ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal plan to open 2,000 acres of the Klamath River watershed to logging will harm threatened coho salmon and degrade its critical habitat, in violation of the Endangered ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Forest Service officials say they tried to balance competing interests in a plan that will allow loggers to remove trees killed in a massive Central California wildfire last ...

A fisher pictured in a tree cavity. USFS Pacific Southwest Research Station Special to The Bee Logging and vegetation management in the Sierra Nevada is being challenged by a lawsuit filed in Fresno ...

The Trump administration has announced plans to increase logging in national forests, including all 18 in California, aiming to boost timber production by 25% over the next five years. This initiative ...

LOS ANGELES― Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today to halt a logging project in a roadless area of Los Padres National Forest that would destroy prime habitat for endangered ...

As counterintuitive as it might seem, logging could be one way to help make California’s woodlands more wildfire resilient. Unfortunately, the process is beset with its own unique set of supply chain ...