A lawsuit filed Wednesday argues the Oregon Department of Forestry's logging practices are hurting protected coho salmon and violating the Endangered Species Act. Five conservation and fishing groups ...
SALEM, Ore. (CN) - Oregon has added new restrictions on logging, doubling the buffer zone around streams to protect salmon and trout - restrictions environmentalists say don't go far enough. The ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A helicopter carries water to fire behind a ranch near Ukiah as part of the effort against the Battle Mountain Complex of blazes ...
Negotiations will continue over prescribed burning and small-diameter thinning while commercial logging is halted under a Southern Oregon forest project recently found to violate federal laws. Last ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — The Bureau of Land Management's plan to stop logging on nearly all its old-growth forest in western Oregon and increase its timber harvest elsewhere satisfies neither ...
After heavy rains triggered fatal landslides in 1996, Oregon rewrote its rules on where logging can happen in landslide-prone areas. Oregon forestry rules now say you can't log in areas with where ...
Editor's note: In honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Statesman Journal and its sister publication, The Register-Guard, are embarking on a yearlong ...
The protest is attempting to stop logging expected to start next week. A group of about 25 community activists in southern Oregon are holding what they call a blockade to stop an already approved ...