When it comes to timber harvesting, removing the whole tree—from stump to twigs—doesn’t reduce plant diversity any more than old-fashioned logging, which leaves tree branches behind in the woods. As ...

TOMAHAWK, Wis. (WSAW) - University of Wisconsin Stevens Point students are learning the science of felling on Saturday. This is the 9th year forestry students have met at Treehaven Field Station in ...

PORT ANGELES — A tree-sit protest, which has blocked logging access to state Department of Natural Resources parcels, is now two weeks old. An injunction hearing regarding the parcels has been ...

Observe standing trees and discuss tree grades. Practice tree scaling and grading on selected trees. Fell a tree and discuss bucking decisions to maximize the value of each log. Discuss and practice ...

When it comes to timber harvesting, removing the whole tree -- from stump to twigs -- doesn't reduce plant diversity any more than old-fashioned logging, which leaves tree branches behind in the woods ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “God has cared for these trees …but he cannot save them from fools.” — John Muir In just two years, wildfire has killed an estimated 13% to 19% of all mature ...

A federal judge has thrown out an environmental lawsuit that claimed a 40,000-acre forest project in Eastern Oregon unlawfully authorized the harvest of large trees. In 2020, the U.S. Forest Service ...

Michigan Tech silviculturalists expected that plant diversity would go down in logging stands where whole trees had been removed, perhaps because the tops and branches leave some nitrogen behind to ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tree sitting has become a popular way to protest logging operations, despite its danger. A man with the environmental activist group Earth First! died this week after he fell more ...

Pacific Northwest forests are crisscrossed with roads — enough logging roads alone to circle the planet 13 times. Some asphalt, some gravel, some renowned for their scenic vistas and traveled by ...

With the right equipment and a little luck, stealing a tree from a swath of land as remote and vast as the Olympic National Forest should have been easy enough. In the summer of 2018, Justin Wilke, a ...