The Trump administration is proposing a rollback that could remove prohibitions on logging and roadbuilding for about 2 million acres in Washington ...

Forks was once the self-proclaimed “logging capital of the world” but that industry has waned. Now there’s a booming economy ...

New Washington Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove halted 23 timber sales, saying the Department of Natural Resources needs time to study the condition of state’s older forests. The order, Upthegrove’s ...

People have until Monday to comment on a Trump administration proposal to drastically limit public input on logging in Oregon and Washington. The Trump administration has proposed drastically limiting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Re: “Lands commissioner’s logging ‘pause’ upsets a careful calculation” (Jan. 31, Opinion): On Jan. 15, his first day as the new Commissioner of Public Lands, Dave Upthegrove announced a six-month ...