President Donald Trump is promising to unleash the US timber industry by allowing companies to raze swaths of federally protected national forests. The order — which calls for the ramping up of the ...

Vowing to defy a court injunction, environmental activists said Wednesday they will step up their clandestine efforts to disrupt Pacific Lumber Co. logging operations in the ridges above the Mattole ...

President Donald Trump took action last weekend to increase domestic logging by circumventing environmental protections and to staunch the flow of imported timber and lumber products into the country, ...

The Pacific Lumber Co. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying that environmental restrictions are preventing it from cutting enough redwoods to continue making payments on the roughly ...

A dozen Humboldt County high school students got a firsthand look at the logging and lumber industry last week, and learned about employment opportunities, with a special focus on current jobs ...

JOHN DAY, Ore. – Logs are piled high in the yard of the Malheur Lumber Co. mill in this small town in northeastern Oregon, ready to be sawed into lumber. Steam pours out of the stacks. Trucks loaded ...

A federal court in Anchorage has dismissed a case filed last year by an Alaska sawmill seeking to force the Forest Service to increase logging in the Tongass National Forest, a blow to the region’s dw ...

FORKS — Allen Logging, the last production lumber mill on the North Olympic Peninsula’s West End, expects to cease operations by mid-July. The closure will idle 45 workers, including drivers, ...