Nielsen Brothers plans to cut 54 acres of timber directly behind the community of 83 homes. Locals said they were never consulted. CONCRETE — A hillside rises 1,300 feet within less than a mile, right ...

It takes a lot to fly pine trees off a mountain, but the cost of leaving them might be greater still. At least that has been the driving calculation behind the Bill Williams Mountain Restoration ...

Employers intending to use winch- or cable-assisted systems for steep slope logging must ensure that the harvesting machine was specified by its manufacturer for operation on slopes of more than 40 or ...

PORTLAND -- The Oregon Board of Forestry is considering changing the rules for logging on private timberlands to make it easier for timber companies to cut on steep slopes where landslides may occur.

A coalition of five groups is asking a federal court to immediately halt clear-cutting on steep, landslide-prone slopes and prevent the state from permitting logging that could harm coho streams. The ...

After heavy rains triggered fatal landslides in 1996, Oregon rewrote its rules on where logging can happen in landslide-prone areas. Oregon forestry rules now say you can't log in areas with where ...

In the fall of 2014 when Andrew Siegmund first witnessed steep-slope logging technology, it wasn’t exactly love at first sight. Siegmund said Weyerhaeuser arranged for a New Zealand outfit to travel ...

While images of December’s Lewis County floods recede like the waters of the Chehalis River, the impacts of the devastation to local families, Washington state taxpayers helping rebuild a community, ...