The Forest Service has successfully contained the Browns Creek Fire, which burned at least 64 acres in the George Washington ...

The federal government is readying to fire up more chain saws in the Northwest’s national forests. President Donald Trump’s ...

The Evergreen State is home to five national forests. Trump wants to increase logging there by 25% in five years.

Firefighters across Washington state are gearing up for wildfire season, training on everything from water pumps to aerial response. With federal resources in question, state officials said they are ...

The Haoe Fire, which is burning in the Nantahala National Forest, has spread to approximately 800 acres and 0% containment.

"Today we are issuing an emergency drought declaration for the upper Yakima, lower Yakima, and Natchee's watersheds," said ...

A draft executive order the White House is considering plans to overhaul how the nation fights wildfires by creating a new federal agency that prioritizes quickly putting out fires.

A bipartisan cohort of U.S. West senators on Friday introduced legislation aimed at managing forests and mitigating fires, ...

and emergency planning — not industrial logging in remote forests that destroys wildlife habitat and makes fire risks worse," ...

Whether or not logging would solve the wildfire problem is contentious. Many U.S. forests are considered to be at high wildfire risk, due to climate change and almost a century of wildfire suppression ...