The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry. The move was announced by U.S.

The Clinton administration’s Northwest Forest Plan was approved by a federal judge in 1994, setting aside more than 20 million acres of old-growth forests in Washington, Oregon, and northern ...

Meanwhile, the plan has fallen far short of fulfilling its promise of a steady supply of timber or replacing lost timber jobs with new opportunities in the small towns near federal forest land, said ...

Courtesy of Julie Cox / Siuslaw National Forest UPDATE — March 7, 2025: On March 6, officials with the U.S. Forest Service told members of the Northwest Forest Plan federal advisory committee that the ...

Timber organizations are calling for action on the Northwest Forest Plan after President Donald Trump issued an executive order for the immediate expansion of American lumber production. This comes as ...

The U.S. economy did not quite manage 3% annual economic growth during Joe Biden’s four years as president. Real (that is, inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product grew an annualized 2.8% from his ...

JUNEAU, Alaska— A coalition of conservation groups, Alaska tribes, a commercial fishing advocacy group and an ecotourism operator today filed a request to intervene in a timber industry legal ...

Each year, Justin Lindholm uses about two-and-a-half gallons of gasoline to get through the winter. It’s just enough, he said, to power his chainsaw to chop the four to five cords of logs that fuel ...