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Environmentalists decried the move, but some in the timber industry say this could boost the economy and prevent fires.
Wyoming’s vast wild spaces are one of its trademarks — a tourist draw as visitors flock to places like Yellowstone National ...
That timber is mostly grown on private land that won't be impacted by the new Forest Service requirements. But lumber in the west is almost all from Canada. The demand for lumber is tightly tied ...
While a Forest Service administrator described the effort as a "new era" in public land management, legal organizations are already teeing up possible litigation against the plans. On April 3 ...
The most destructive and notable fires in recent years—in Lahaina, Hawaii, in 2023, and in Los Angeles earlier this year—were in urban areas, far from U.S. Forest Service land covered by the ...
ProPublica spoke to employees across the Forest Service — which manages an area of land nearly twice the size of California — including staff working in firefighting, facilities, timber sales ...
White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams, second to the right behind former President Joe Biden, applauds ...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a memo on Friday ordering the expansion of American timber production on U.S. Forest Service land, including large areas of Big Sur. The order ...