Washington timberland owners are suing three state agencies to overturn a rule that will prohibit logging within 75 feet of ...

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 ...

Nearly 1,400 acres of state-owned forests near Lake Whatcom will be newly protected from logging as part of an initiative announced Wednesday, April 6, by Washington’s Department of Natural Resources.

CAPITOL STATE FOREST, Thurston County — Older than Washington state, the biggest Douglas firs on this patch of state forestland have stood through more than a century of logging. Part of a 180-acre ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to preserve protections for 3.4 million acres (1.4 million hectares) of northern spotted owl habitat from the US-Canada border ...

MOUNT WASHINGTON — The use of weed killers on state land in July was funded by a Pennsylvania-based wildlife conservation organization that also supports game-bird hunting. The state Department of ...

WA Commissioner of Public Lands skeptical Dave Upthegrove, the newly-elected commissioner of public lands for the Washington DNR, told The News Tribune on April 16 he is worried about the Trump ...