National Forests

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.

Reduced staff in national parks and forests will likely mean rougher conditions on trails, and longer search and rescue response times. But the public can help out.

Washington's 6th District Rep. Emily Randall's first term in Congress has already been marked by dramatic federal funding cuts and contentious committee hearings.

President Trump recently issued an order declaring an emergency for national forests because of fire risk and a lack of domestic lumber supply.

A year after President Biden's Earth Day visit to Seattle where he announced an order to identify and protect older forests, the results from the government's first-ever national inventory of mature and old-growth forests on federal land is being released.

A report out last month says visitors spent nearly $740 million in communities near U.S. Forest Service lands in Washington and Oregon. The number of...

The Trump administration has proposed its budget for fiscal year 2019. It would once again gut funding for a multi-million-dollar federal conservation and…

Winter in the Northwest can be challenging, with so many dark days. One strategy for getting through is to go outside and enjoy the weather, whatever it…

When the marbled murrelet was first listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1992, so little was known about the elusive sea bird that the state…

You could call it power that’s growing on trees, but doesn’t get put to good use.The US Forest service recently announced $4-million in grants to support…