The "roadless rule" has prohibited road construction and timber harvesting on over 58 million acres of public land since 2001 ...

The Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit, agreed to pay $60.1 million for 7,765 acres near the Okefenokee Swamp once ...

Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of ...

Concerns about lost safeguards. Environmentalists rejected the claim that wildfire protection was driving the changes to forest policy. In response to the new directive, Forest Service officials ...

The Trump administration has rolled back environmental protections related to future logging projects in more than half of national forests under an emergency designation issued Friday that cites ...

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah single-handedly appears to have produced what just might be the most unified, and broadly ...

Forest ecologist John Hagan’s survey of the area found that 78% of the trees are less than 35 feet tall, not 60%, as claimed by Avangrid’s submission. The groups also said the number of trees ...

This is the third year of the program, which has so far finalized 13 leases covering 71,668 acres at a cost of $8.1 million, ...

Under Biden, the Forest Service sought to more intensively manage national forests in the West, by speeding up wildfire protection work including logging in so-called “priority landscapes ...