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 ...

On March 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order for the immediate expansion of American timber production. Within the executive order, it's said that increased production of timber, ...

Forest elephant populations have been seriously declining for decades. In a recent and extensive literature review published in Mammal Review, investigators describe the impacts of logging in central ...

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 ...

Forensic science has achieved infamy, thanks to television dramas like CSI. But it isn’t just about solving human crimes. Scientists are also using evidence from wood to help solve murders, but in ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Trump administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards related to future logging projects in more than half of national forests under an emergency designation announced ...

Indonesia’s trade ministry has scrapped a requirement for wood exporters to obtain licenses verifying their wood comes from legal and sustainably managed sources. The SVLK verification system took a ...

As a small crew worked last week cutting down timber in a spruce-fir forest south of Collbran on Grand Mesa, a rain cloud scudded overhead and moistened the scene. It was an isolated shower, though, ...

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 led by the ...