President Clinton can leave the nation a major legacy this month with final approval of a plan to spare nearly 60 million acres of roadless forest from future logging and road-building. For far too ...

Dear Rep. Brad Hill and Sen. Bruce Tarr: I have revised my thinking on proper forest management after reading an article about an early forest philanthropist, Joseph Battell. Forests here in Eastern ...

The Sierra Club has recently mounted a campaign to end commercial logging in the national forest system. It is true that commercial loggers in the 19th century denuded vast reserves of timber located ...

Friday is the last day for the public to comment on the environmental impact statement of the draft National Old-Growth Amendment. The U.S. Forest Service is deciding how it will manage the remaining ...

TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. — Little has gone according to plan in the Red Star Restoration Project on the Sierra Nevada’s wooded slopes near Lake Tahoe. Private timber companies were to pay the ...

When the Goldwater Institute, a Phoenix-based libertarian think tank, praises a government program, however qualified, it is worth noting. Even if, in the final analysis, the praise proves unwarranted ...

Parts of this forest 60 miles west of Denver could use a thinning — on that locals, U.S. Forest Service staff, academic experts and even many environmentalists agree. The same could be said of ...