Students in Shasta College’s logging operations program are helping defer their program's costs while they train. They're selling logs they harvest to North State sawmills. It’s an income stream made ...

This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of ...

Freres Lumber Co. in Lyons, Ore., employs 415 people. It sources much of its timber from the area ravaged by wildfires. Oregon’s timber industry has sustained an enormous setback as massive wildfires ...

After Colorado faced its worst fire season on record in 2020, freshman House Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., introduced legislation to mitigate wildfires, as the West grapples with devastating burns, ...

In the middle of yet another big wildfire seasons, some reporters finally listened to fire scientists when they quoted people like Dr. Higuera, an associate professor of fire ecology at the University ...

An aerial shot of Prince of Wales Island. (Photo by KRBD) A federal judge has dealt a potentially fatal blow to what would’ve been the largest timber sales in Tongass National Forest in decades. The ...

GOULD — Stunned by unprecedented megafires, Colorado is embracing logging — mowing holes up to 140 acres in beetle-infested lodgepole pines — in an effort to revive out-of-balance forests. This ...

The effort to open the Alaskan wilderness area, the nation’s largest national forest, has been in the works for about two years. By Coral Davenport WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday ...

He’s trying to make the “lumberjack look” hip again. Scott Dane, a logger and trucker from Wisconsin, threw his support behind President Trump in remarks at the 2020 Republican National Convention ...

A wild boar hightails it into the forest as we approach the village of Long Tungan, Sarawak, on a field trip for The Borneo Project. In the driver’s seat of our Hilux, Erang says that if his gun had ...

On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of residents packed into the local firehouse in Corbett, Oregon, a town about 30 miles outside of Portland. Water manager Jeff Busto told the crowd that ...