Hundreds of Buncombe County residents are rallying to keep thousands of acres from potential logging in Big Ivy's old growth forests, petitioning the county to take action. Residents flooded the ...

New federal laws could “lock up” timber land for decades at a time, raising concerns big companies could elbow out smaller competitors and that timber revenue for counties could be delayed for years.

Two years ago, Sealaska Corp. gave the Trump administration a prescription for managing the region’s millions of acres of forest. Open more areas to logging, the Alaska Native corporation urged, ...