Loss of forest cover is associated with more frequent extreme flooding, as well as more frequent floods of any size, according to new UBC research. While it's widely thought that loss of forest cover ...
Clearcutting is an environmentally destructive but economically profitable way to log forests. Clearcutting and its related types of logging—i.e., seed tree and shelterwood cuts—remove most of the ...
WASHINGTON— The U.S. Forest Service announced a final plan today to eliminate roadless-rule protections in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, opening vast swaths of irreplaceable old-growth temperate ...
The U.S. Forest Service and logging companies are frantically attempting to privatize public forests. 4) deny constitutionally protected rights to judicial review of massive, destructive clearcutting ...
A reader argues that a recent article on landslides failed to mention clearcut logging as the primary cause in Western Oregon. Another letter highlights several local initiatives as signs that peace ...
The state's forestry department is blaming unclear state rules -- not errors by loggers or state foresters -- for disputed logging practices conducted during a clearcut at a Boy Scout camp in ...