For homeowners, land managers, and public agencies seeking a potentially more sustainable solution, Bigfoot Forestry, LLC, a ...

Southern Tier forest managers are turning to slash walls to regenerate lands hit hard by deer. The difference is "like the surface of the moon." ...

By Don Amador (Sept. 19 marked) the deadline for submitting initial public scoping comments in a new rulemaking process by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule ...

For Tom Schultz, the 21st chief of the U.S. Forest Service, repealing the Roadless Rule is not a matter of ideology but rather a matter of “common sense land management.” Leaving land alone and ...

A tree can sequester quite a bit of carbon, and forests can sequester and store quite a bit more, but knowing exactly how ...

SAVOY — Forester Kevin Podowka walked backward on a logging road as he led about 20 people through a small part of a 100-acre section of Savoy Mountain State Forest that is slated for cutting. Even as ...

Girdling, gap cuts, thinning and planting are some of the tactics now being used in Kitsap County to restore former ...

Throughout her two decades working on forestry issues, Jasmine Minbashian has often found herself at odds with the U.S. Forest Service and the timber industry. Her environmental activism started ...

Forest certification ensures that plantations are managed responsibly and sustainably, protecting the rights of forest workers and communities, safeguarding the environment, and ensuring the ...

In 2006, Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s government passed the Public Forest Management Law, implementing a forest concession scheme designed to regulate and legalize logging activities in ...