There has long been controversy regarding the adverse effects of logging, especially concerning the practice of whole-tree skidding, which removes the branches and treetrops of trees for electrical ...

DeKalb County tree lovers have a new data source for managing the county’s urban canopy in the future. The county recently ...

When it comes to timber harvesting, removing the whole tree—from stump to twigs—doesn’t reduce plant diversity any more than old-fashioned logging, which leaves tree branches behind in the woods. As ...

TOMAHAWK, Wis. (WSAW) - University of Wisconsin Stevens Point students are learning the science of felling on Saturday. This is the 9th year forestry students have met at Treehaven Field Station in ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tree sitting has become a popular way to protest logging operations, despite its danger. A man with the environmental activist group Earth First! died this week after he fell more ...

Last year, the US Bureau of Land Management sold the rights to log a small grove of Douglas firs in Oregon, to a private company called Roseburg Forest Products. The company bid more than $1 million ...

Loren German of Creekside Logging Co. in Redding, Calif., uses a hot saw to fell a tree in a forest near Viola, Calif. University of California research suggests that more forest thinning projects ...

The spiked pepper tree (Piper aduncum) is native to the American tropics, but has made itself at home in a variety of other locales where it can crowd out local vegetation and interfere with forest ...

SELMA, Ore. — Stan Chronister and the young man calling himself Purusha were probably never going to see eye to eye anyway. But they were certainly not doing so the other day, what with Purusha ...