PAYSON — When lightning ignited chaparral and ponderosa pine litter to form the West Fire one night in late August, U.S. Forest Service fire managers knew they had some room to let it run. Flames ...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted May 20 to ease bureaucratic obstacles to forest-thinning activities on 20 million acres of the nation’s most fire-prone federal lands. The bill has the backing ...

WINDHAM — The last time Windham’s town forest was significantly altered, it was the 1800s and the roughly 200 acres weren’t called a town forest. But in the intervening centuries since the land ...

A log truck pulls out from a forest thinning operation underway on Forest Road 4610 off Skyliners Road in Bend on Wednesday morning. The fluttering snowflakes turned into a full-on blizzard as Tony ...

(CN) — A Montana timber thinning project got the green light to proceed on Tuesday as a federal judge shut down environmentalists’ efforts to block it. “Because plaintiffs have failed to show that the ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – The USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU) is scheduled to begin mechanical forest thinning (fuels reduction) on Monday, July 1, 2024, on approximately ...

Forest thinning improves the health of older trees and enhances native biodiversity on federal lands in Eastern Oregon. That’s according to a new study from Oregon State University, in partnership ...

Clark County officials on Thursday kickstarted a project to thin roughly 30 percent of forest on Spud Mountain as a part of the county’s forest stewardship plan. Staff began preparing permit proposals ...

Not only did forest thinning slow the spread of last summer’s Hayman Fire in Colorado, it helped prevent subsequent damage from erosion, according to a study conducted by the U.S. Forest Service (HCN, ...