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 ...
Officials in timber-dependent counties around Southwest Washington say the state Forest Practices Board’s new rule expanding ...
Can Washington state hold off harvesting older forests in the face of a projected $12 billion budget deficit without impacting local governments and school districts that get money from those timber ...
Emily Fitzgerald / Washington State Standard Washington loggers, school leaders and conservation activists on Wednesday decried the state lands commissioner’s proposal to set aside 77,000 acres of ...
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources can move ahead on projects to store carbon in forests, a Thurston County judge ruled. (Marty Cozart/DNR) Forests on Washington’s public logging ...
WASHINGTON — The state has paused the October Mountain State Forest logging and management project to determine whether the plan is climate friendly. The state Department of Conservation and ...
Clarification: The project area is now 275 acres, but the active logging area was reduced to 178 acres. MOUNT WASHINGTON — Eleanor Tillinghast has always loved this place. She is looking east from the ...