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The idea is to sell off millions of acres of lands held by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service, to help alleviate the nation’s housing shortage and the federal deficit. Interested parties could nominate parcels to be auctioned off for development.

Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

Advocates for preventing the logging say that with all the effort and millions of dollars put into dam removal and ecosystem restoration on the Elwha, cutting these mature stands doesn’t make sense.

Community colleges are forming partnerships to train employees for logging, oystering.

U.S. officials are proposing increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest under changes to a sweeping forest management plan that’s been in place for decades.

The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests on federal lands, but environmentalists and loggers have issues with the proposal.

A timber industry group and two counties challenged a plan to set aside about 10,000 acres of trees to absorb carbon dioxide and help combat climate change.

How to protect marbled murrelet habitat in state-owned forests is in the spotlight this week in Washington, as the state’s Department of Natural Resources…

How to prevent unsafe logging on steep slopes that could cause future landslides will be at the center of discussions in Olympia Wednesday. In the wake of…

Timber industry and environmental groups will make a stab at collaboration to boost both logging and habitat restoration in the Olympic National…