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Despite its trendy greenwashed label, the success of lumber and wood products in storing carbon fails miserably to measure up to what living trees do.

A train trundles up the side of Mount Washington, bringing owner Wayne Presby to the top. The wind moves fast at that height, where the weather can turn quick enough to kill. The train moves slowly, climbing up the steep grade at just under 5 miles...

Inside the controversy over proposed mountaintop accommodation.

The US Forest Service is exploiting a loophole in the Roadless Rule to back misguided management plans, say activists.

Opponents of a plan to harvest timber from nearly 3,800 acres of mature state forest around Camel’s Hump are calling for a logging moratorium there....

Two bills meant to protect Vermont forests met very different fates recently, with Gov. Phil Scott signing one into law and rejecting another with a...

WARREN, N.H. — The U.S. Forest Service released a revised environmental assessment of its plan to log 880 acres of land around Lake Tarleton, a high altitude lake in the White Mountain National Forest, after outspoken local criticism. A third comment...

Center for Biological Diversity: SEATTLE— President Joe Biden will issue an executive order today that directs federal agencies to conduct an inventory of mature and old-growth forests on America’s federal lands so that policies can be adopted to protect them. The administration framed the move as a key strategy to store carbon and address climate change.

Forest conservation groups on Friday cheered an executive order from President Joe Biden that instructs federal agencies to inventory mature and old-growth forests on federal...

Clear-cutting has long been common and contentious in federal and state forests. However, the Forest Service's Early Successional Habitat Creation Project currently provides new evidence that clear-cutting improves native fauna, which is widely discussed. From Michigan to Maine, just about every northern state east of the Great Plains has implemented "logging for wildlife."