The Lolo National Forest is proposing to “salvage” log a portion of the 28,000-acre Liberty Burn near Seeley Lake, Montana. The Forest Service (FS) approved the logging using a categorical exclusion ...

Japanese companies are buying illegally-logged timber from Sarawak's endangered rainforests and labelling much of it as “legal” under a government-sanctioned certification scheme. In its latest report ...

There is ongoing turmoil in the native forest logging industry, as revealed in the ABC’s Four Corners program that aired last ...

Vietnam has made progress in recent years to rid its supply chains of illicit timber, allowing it to maintain access to ...

In this entry, we are going to look at some of the behind-the-scenes economics that are quietly whirring away in the background before any tree gets cut down or any log gets sliced up. The forests in ...

Beth Nakamura / OPB For decades, the timber industry drove the economy in Oregon, a state where nearly half of the land is forest. Today, the industry has changed. Logging in federal forests, once a ...

Amazonian forests are unlikely to provide enough timber to meet current demand over the long term, even with the use of improved logging practices. That is a key finding of a new study. Amazonian ...