When you walk through a furniture store, the wood around you seems ordinary. Floorboards gleam under bright lights. Tables and cabinets are labeled with familiar names of wood, such as oak, rosewood ...

President Donald Trump is promising to unleash the US timber industry by allowing companies to raze swaths of federally protected national forests. The order — which calls for the ramping up of the ...

The value of forest ecosystems is hard to overstate. Blanketing roughly a third of the US, they supply clean water and air, absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide, and provide homes for imperiled ...

Chad Hanson is an ecologist with the John Muir Project and the author of Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate (University Press Kentucky, May 2021). Earlier this ...

Move aims to protect millions of old-growth trees, which are better at storing carbon, but its outcome depends on 2024 election Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday announced a new proposal aimed at ...

Winter is an important time for loggers in the Northeast to harvest timber. But this year's warmer temperatures, and climate change generally, has made it difficult for them to work consistently. It's ...

Often, horse logging occurs in the winter when a layer of snow on the ground makes skidding logs easier. Learn the “forestry” definition in renewable terms. Modern logging with horses is the right ...

Aside from exercise and platforms that track it, such as Strava, the logging and its haters mostly focus on media consumption: films and books, primarily (Getty) It started in October, when I was so ...