Discussions about how to best manage Washington forests often get heated. And nothing seems to incite a more negative response than the idea of clear-cutting. In a recent Seattle Times article, there ...
The US Forest Service is proposing a massive project in a national forest in Michigan that would log land roughly the size of Detroit, expand gravel mining and build roads. The Silver Branch ...
The U.S. Forest Service has proposed a project that would include clear-cutting some sections of a 200-square-mile section of the Ottawa National Forest in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The current ...
An Oregon State University forest scientist emerita called the proposal "insanity," saying these carbon-storing forests are among the most effective in the world at fighting climate change.
Clear-cutting can make catastrophic floods 18 times more frequent with effects lasting more than 40 years, according to a new UBC study. In one watershed, these extreme floods also became more than ...
FILE - In this May 19, 2008, file photo, a Kirtland’s warbler perches on a branch in the jack pine forests of northern Michigan near Mio, Mich. Federal officials on Wednesday, April 11, 2018, said ...