A 34-year-old rule exempting some commercial logging projects on federal lands from environmental review is unlawful, a federal judge recently ruled. Judge Michael McShane in the U.S. District Court ...

An environmental group has filed suit in U.S. District Court to stop two commercial logging projects on the White Mountain National Forest, including the Peabody West Integrated Resource Project in ...

A federal judge has struck down a long-standing U.S. Forest Service regulation that allowed the agency to approve tens of thousands of acres of commercial logging without conducting environmental ...

Forest fog over the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southeastern Oregon. (U.S. Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Region/Flickr via Courthouse News) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — In a win for conservation ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A lawsuit brought by Montana conservationists has largely stopped commercial logging planned for ...

Forest fog over the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southeastern Oregon. (U.S. Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Region/Flickr via Courthouse News) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — A dispute over three ...

Thanks to a successful court challenge by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, over 10,000 acres of grizzly bear habitat in northwestern Montana will not be decimated by commercial logging. In late June ...

Negotiations will continue over prescribed burning and small-diameter thinning while commercial logging is halted under a Southern Oregon forest project recently found to violate federal laws. Last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge vacated approvals for three major logging projects in Oregon and ruled that the U.S. Forest Service could not use ...