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The Fight Over Logging on U.S. Public Lands Isn’t Done Yet

Despite an Oregon court ruling in January invalidating a rule that enabled clear cutting, it’s far from the last salvo in the battle for how to fight fires or manage forests—and who can profit from it.

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Wildfire Urgency Unites Congress. The ‘Fix Our Forests’ Act Does Not.

By Katie Surma

Decades-Old Rule that Allowed Logging on Vast Swaths of US Land Ruled Unlawful by Oregon Court

By Gloria Dickie

Forestry Carbon Credit Programs Have a Poor Track Record. Can a More Refined Approach Fix the Problem?

By Theo Peck-Suzuki

Proposal to Undo Roadless Rule Would Open Some of Southern California’s Last Wild Forests to Development

By Wyatt Myskow

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Revoke the ‘Roadless Rule.’ The Public Won’t Have Much Time to Weigh In

By Sarah Mattalian

A Vermont Forest Tries a New Model of Growth, Diversity and Logging

By Olivia Gieger

Potential Repeal of Roadless Rule Could Permanently Damage Midwest National Forests

By Sarah Mattalian

How the Trump Administration’s Interpretation of One Word—‘Harm’—Could Gut Habitat Protections for Endangered Species

By Kiley Price, Wyatt Myskow

Lakes Region Restoration Project Aims to Link Conservation Lands From Maine to New Hampshire

By Olivia Gieger

Trump’s Executive Order on Forests ‘A Devastating Blow,’ Activists Say

By Kiley Bense

‘Legacy’ Forests. ‘Restoration’ Logging. The New Jargon of Conservation Is Awash in Ambiguity. And Politics

By Nathan Gilles, Columbia Insight

Biden Administration Takes Historic Step to Protect Old-Growth Forest

By Marianne Lavelle

Log and Burn, or Leave Alone? Indiana Residents Fight US Forest Service Over the Future of Hoosier National Forest

By Marianne Lavelle

Logging Plan on Yellowstone’s Border Shows Limits of Biden Greenhouse Gas Policy

By Marianne Lavelle

Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees

By Marianne Lavelle

At COP27, the US Said It Will Lead Efforts to Halt Deforestation. But at Home, the Biden Administration Is Considering Massive Old Growth Logging Projects

By Bob Berwyn

Lack of Loggers Is Hobbling Arizona Forest-Thinning Projects That Could Have Slowed This Year’s Devastating Wildfires

By Andrew Onodera

The Trump Administration Moves to Open Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Logging

By Katelyn Weisbrod