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The Evergreen State is home to five national forests. Trump wants to increase logging there by 25% in five years.
In the months after Hurricane Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah National Forest, John Beaudet and other volunteers ...
Growing concern over wildfires has spurred proponents to push for more logging as a way to mitigate risk. But some say it ...
A Trump administration memorandum issued April 3 declared a state of emergency in timber supply and national forest health ...
To comply with Trump’s directive to increase U.S. timber production by 25%, the Forest ... growth trees store large amounts ...
"It’s not looking at what will protect communities. It’s about the number of board feet, the number of trees you are pulling ...
Across the Northwest, residents and conservation groups alike are wary of the changes. On March 1, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that called for the “immediate expansion of American ...
Money from a $12 million federal grant for the Philly Tree Plan that had been frozen amid Trump administration ... that the funds from a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service grant had ...
Some Forest Service workers supporting firefighting during wildfires across Western North Carolina were reinstated by the Trump administration just days or weeks before the crisis. These employees ...
(Contributed by Gifford Pinchot National Forest) The U.S. Forest Service is planning to replant 134 acres of trees in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest lost during the 2022 Siouxon, Kalama and ...
By Rebecca Dzombak When lightning strikes a tree in the tropics, the whole forest explodes ... much of his time climbing trees, looking for signs of lightning damage. But making critical ...