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The Maine Department of Labor is holding a field hearing Friday in Fort Kent on proposed rule changes that crack down on logging companies that hire Canadian contractors instead of Maine workers.
After striking out the last three times, the U.S. Forest Service is embarking on another rewrite of the basic planning rule that balances logging against fish and wildlife and clean water in national forests.
An environmental group is seeking to stop three logging projects on several thousand acres in northwest Montana, arguing that the timber sales would harm the area's fledgling grizzly bear population.
A federal judge has struck down the Bush administration's change to a rule designed to protect the northern spotted owl from logging in national forests.
The Supreme Court has made it harder to challenge federal regulations governing timber sales and other policies in national forests.
Source says Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts hospitalized with apparent stroke-like symptoms.
More than 3 million acres in Alaska's Tongass National Forest would be open to logging under a federal plan that supporters believe will revive the state's struggling timber industry.
The Bush administration has dropped its appeal of a 2007 court decision that had overturned new management rules for 191 million acres of national forests. Opponents to the rules had argued they weakened protection for wildlife and the environment to the benefit of the timber industry.
A federal rule that allowed expedited logging on national forests saved thousands of homes during the recent wildfires in California, the Forest Service chief said Thursday.
Logging dead trees after a wildfire and planting new ones can make future fires worse, at least for a decade or two while the young trees create a volatile source of fuel, scientists found in a study that contradicts conventional practices.
Brazilian police arrested 18 people accused of allowing illegal logging in the Amazon rain forest and were searching for 19 others, including environmental protection agents, the environment minister said.
Questioning whether the Bush administration is manipulating science for political ends, Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., called Tuesday for an inspector general's investigation into why federal funding was suspended for a study that goes against White House-supported legislation to speed up logging after wildfires on national forests.
Questioning whether the Bush administration is manipulating science for political ends, Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., called Tuesday for an inspector general's investigation into why federal funding was suspended for a study that goes against White House-supported legislation to speed up logging after wildfires on national forests.
Behind Weyerhauser's move to REIT-hoodWeyerhaeuser is close to becoming a real estate investment trust.
Forest Service will rewrite environmental-impact rulesAfter striking out three times, the U.S.
When the land's worth more than the treesFor 100 years, Ponderosa pines nourished this logging town of 500 nestled along Mount Adams' southeastern flank. But in the past few years, a change has taken over the woods, unsettling residents and their relationship with the land.
Judge's ruling has little local impactA federal judge's ruling that requires the U.S. Forest Service to survey for hundreds of plant and animal species before logging or other major activities will have little impact on local projects, an agency official says. Thursday's ruling by U.S.
Pre-logging biosurveys upheldA federal judge has upheld a requirement that Northwest national forests look for hundreds of hard-to-find but ecologically important species like snails, mushrooms and mosses before cutting down big trees. The ruling Thursday from U.S.
Timber industry, environmentalists back forest revivalLongtime adversaries in the bitter battle over Northwest logging have come together to support legislation to restore timber jobs and protect old growth in Eastern Oregon's six national forests. Representatives of the timber industry and conservation groups who fought each other …
Budget cuts could mean the end of Oregon's forest protection rulesFor three decades, a landmark Oregon law has helped protect clean water and wildlife habitat on private forest lands. It was the first of its kind, serving as a model for other states' forestry rules. Now, Oregon's budget problems are putting the Forest Practices Act at risk.
Timber rules to help salmonIn northeastern Yuba County, a timber company is looking at a difficult future, while nature lovers see hope for restoring salmon runs. Their emotions stem from the same place: Revised regulations approved in September by the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection that …
Obama administration inches away from 'time out' for roadless forest loggingEnvironmental groups in May hailed the Obama administration's decision to effectively pause development in about 58 million acres of road-free federal forests. Any logging in those forests, about 2 million acres of which are in Oregon, would have to be approved by Agriculture Se …
Federal plan tries to balance economy, environment for western Oregon forestsPresident Barack Obama inherited a lot of problems: Afghanistan, health care, the economy. But in the Northwest, one of the most intractable issues any new administration faces is what to do with our wealth of federal forests.
Oregon project tests Obama forest policyWhen Sharon Karr's cabin was built on the shores of this high mountain lake in 1928, there were few neighbors and little thought given to the prospects of wildfire. There are now 102 cabins on this land on the Umpqua National Forest, and fears of a big fire have grown.
Memo to the President - Liberia - Good readingIt seems citizens everywhere have problems with their government and government everywhere has problems with their people. Evidently the President of Liberia has been taking kickbacks from a logging firm. This is a good read for those concerned about our US Federal Administration.
Little beetle a big puzzle for Canadian lumberInvestors in Canada's forestry sector should pay attention to the speed skating competition at next year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver because it could help them with an insect problem. Western Canada's mountain pine beetle infestation has left forestry firms with both the shor …
Pine beetle epidemic is over: B.C. ministerThe mountain pine beetle epidemic is over, B.C. forests minister declared Monday. But it's not because the beetles have been defeated. Rather, they have run out of trees, and that heralds a whole new set of problems, Pat Bell told the Vancouver Board of Trade.
Landmark injunction halts old-growth loggingEnvironmentalists have won a landmark court injunction to halt logging in old-growth forest in far east Gippsland.
U.S. official fears new California logging rules may hurt salmonNew logging rules intended to protect California salmon may do just the opposite, according to federal officials who are considering additional industry monitoring to prevent extinction. The California Board of Forestry on Wednesday granted initial approval to the new rules gove …
Greenpeace: Indonesian Sinar Mas logging and palm oil company, "climate criminal"Greenpeace activists demanding a logging halt were attacked when they led a peaceful protest at the headquarters of Indonesia's largest logging and palm oil company, the Sinar Mas Group, in Jakarta today.
Bark beetle epidemic reshapes debate on loggingHelena's city commission met last week to earnestly discuss something that three years ago would have been a sacrilege: logging Mount Helena city park. The mountain park, as iconic to the capital as the Rims are to Billings or the "M" to Missoula, is now streaked with ribbons of …
Rock Bottom Timber Prices Hurt NW School BudgetsTo understand the fallout for school kids, it makes sense to start in the woods with a logger -- like Jerry DeBriae. Actually we're in his truck headed out to the woods. The CB radio squawks, DeBriae's black lab Chip rests his head on the center console.
New strategy to save forests: loggingStumps and slash piles are the tallest things on this forestland less than 30 miles from the Space Needle as the crow flies. Clear-cut two years ago, this is the sort of sight that not long ago would have riled most environmentalists.
Deep Deep UndercoverLove or hate the James Bond phenomenon, we bet you've had a hankering to get your hands on a nifty bit of kit that hides a secret camera or a magnet fit for unzipping ladies' dresses at some point in your fantasy life.
Tester unveils forest planThe smell of sawdust hung in the air Friday as U.S. Sen.
Old growth forest experiment in Willapa HillsPerched on a dirt road between stands of densely packed hemlocks and cedars, Tom Kollasch points to one of the parcels he plans to have commercially thinned. "We're just waiting for timber prices to go back up," he says. Nothing unusual here.
Obama saves ancient forests by overturning Bush-era logging planPresident Obama has given a real gift to the planet and all its glorious biological diversity, including humankind.
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