President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies to increase logging on national forests nationwide, including in Washington state, counter to decades of environmental policy and protections. A ...

A long-awaited policy on the forests that will become the next generation of old growth brought out many critics at the first ...

A section of the Colville National Forest is shown in this file photo Steve Ringman The Seattle Times/TNS The Pacific Northwest is fortunate to have vast forests and ideal conditions for growing trees ...

Facing budget strains, loggers, elected officials and environmentalists rebuked Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove on ...

On his first day in office, Dave Upthegrove, the state’s new public lands commissioner, said he would pause logging sales in some older state-managed forests for about six months. In doing so, he’s ...

When I quit logging and moved to Seattle in 1984 to go back to college, the spotted owl issue had heated up. The debate over preserving old growth set the environmentalists against the loggers, and I ...

In this file photo from 2014, a staff member of the National Parks Conservation Association approaches the Highway 101 bridge during a rafting tour of the Elwha River. This area was underwater as part ...