“God has cared for these trees …but he cannot save them from fools.” — John Muir In just two years, wildfire has killed an estimated 13% to 19% of all mature giant sequoia trees. These most massive of ...

It didn’t get much notice, but President Donald Trump has turbocharged logging on public lands in ways that are likely to increase dangerous wildfire. Inside the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that became ...

Loren German of Creekside Logging Co. in Redding, Calif., uses a hot saw to fell a tree in a forest near Viola, Calif. University of California research suggests that more forest thinning projects ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Meg Krawchuk of Oregon State University about the Biden administration's proposal to protect old growth forests. Old trees contain more carbon than younger trees. Trees ...

A tree sitter has spent two weeks protesting the "Parched" timber sale in the Elwha watershed near Port Angeles, living 60 feet up a fir tree. The sale targets mature state forestland, drawing ...

TOMAHAWK, Wis. (WSAW) - University of Wisconsin Stevens Point students are learning the science of felling on Saturday. This is the 9th year forestry students have met at Treehaven Field Station in ...

LIBREVILLE, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Gabon's junta has relaxed rules covering the rare kevazingo tree, allowing logging under certain conditions of a hardwood species that can take 500 years to grow to its ...

Large ponderosa pines have been marked for removal as part of a fire preparedness project, but conservation group Oregon Wild says they should be spared. Jamie Dawson with the conservation group ...

The photo said it all. On the back of a logging truck, a tree so large it could barely fit. It was cut down in Tasmania’s Florentine Valley, not far from Mount Field, where it had started life as a ...