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States are increasingly leading projects in national forests.

A group pressing to save older forests from logging is threatening to sue. School officials and others are raising alarm about lost revenue.

A coalition of community and conservation groups wants to stop a state logging claim near the banks of the Elwha river. They say the so-called “Power Plant” sale would compromise the high-profile effort to restore endangered salmon habitat on the river, just a decade after two dams were removed.

State legislators set aside $70 million of revenue from Washington’s Climate Commitment Act to conserve mature forests – but that’s only enough for about 2,000 acres statewide. Community activists cataloged a parcel in Snohomish County they hope will be among the protected acres.

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.

In Oregon, mass timber is increasingly being viewed as a construction material that could help the state build more affordable homes and revive rural logging towns. Mass timber is made from wood products that are fastened together to make large panels or beams.

Timber used to be the economic engine of Ketchikan, Alaska, but after the pulp mill there closed in the '90s, the town turned to tourism.

RIDDLE, Ore. (AP) — John Redfield watches with pride as his son moves a laser-guided precision saw the size of a semi-truck wheel into place over a…

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

When a massive earthquake destroyed San Francisco in 1906, timber mills in the Northwest went into high gear. They supplied the wood needed to rebuild. Last year, many in the timber industry predicted the Tohoku quake in Japan would cause a jump in northwest lumber exports. But those predictions haven't come true.