A federal judge blocked a U.S. Forest Service plan to log hazard trees along 400 miles of road in Willamette National Forest this week, dealing a blow to the agency’s plan for reopening 170,000 acres ...

May 5—There is plenty to debate about salvage logging of burned trees after wildfires. The timber industry says it's important to cut down and remove still-usable trees before they rot and become ...

Trees are the lifeblood of the forest. While alive, they form their body; as snags (standing dead trees), they provide ...

There has long been controversy regarding the adverse effects of logging, especially concerning the practice of whole-tree skidding, which removes the branches and treetrops of trees for electrical ...

Market-friendly environmentalists suffered a second defeat as a federal district judge on January 8 blocked a Bush administration decision to allow logging on more than 40,000 acres of burned trees in ...

1. Modelling growth strategies among tropical trees is an important objective in predicting the response of tree dynamics to selective logging and in gaining insights into the ecological processes ...