May 5—There is plenty to debate about salvage logging of burned trees after wildfires. The timber industry says it's important to cut down and remove still-usable trees before they rot and become ...

PINEHURST, Calif. (KFSN) -- Concerns over dying trees in the sierra has prompted a regulation change. Cal Fire is making it easier for loggers to cut down dying trees. These new regulations mean that ...

Outside Trinidad, Calif., in an area known as Strawberry Rock, Walter, a 22-year-old UCLA student, is taking part in a tree sit-in to prevent a logging company from cutting redwoods and other trees.

When Maura Healey was running for Massachusetts governor, she called for a moratorium on commercial tree-cutting on state forests. It was meant as a pause, while the state figures out how its forests ...

OAKHURST, Calif. (KFSN) -- What is typically the slow, quiet time of year for Oakhurst has seen an unexpected jolt to its local economy. Out of town tree loggers staying there to help with the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In this Feb. 7, 2019 photo, Tom Gerow, a general manager at The Wagner ...

The spiked pepper tree (Piper aduncum) is native to the American tropics, but has made itself at home in a variety of other locales where it can crowd out local vegetation and interfere with forest ...

When it comes to timber harvesting, removing the whole tree -- from stump to twigs -- doesn't reduce plant diversity any more than old-fashioned logging, which leaves tree branches behind in the woods ...

SACRAMENTO – Residents of a South Natomas neighborhood are wondering if lost loggers may be to blame for cutting down a tree. A home on Azurite Way is surrounded by colorful flowers and lush ...

Valuable trees in the larger Nandi District forests are under threat from residents out to make a quick shilling. The demand for the trees, such as the Elgon Teak, is so high that it takes only hours ...

The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday unveiled a salvage logging operation for more than 15,000 acres of trees burned in last summer’s Rim Fire. The plan -- which calls for removing an additional ...