New research explains why forests planted for logging purposes fuel devastating wildfires more often than untouched land.

The Trump administration wants to increase logging in forests to simultaneously boost timber production and reduce wildfire risk. Yet, a new study shows that industrial private land managed by timber ...

Activists have fought for decades to stop logging at Jackson State Forest. Now an Indigenous tribe is demanding a say in the fate of their ancestral homeland.

SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS (KPIX 5) -- Some environmentalists say it's time to start logging in some areas to prevent overcrowding in California's forests. A project is being talked about near Davenport ...

A century-old redwood — California’s most revered tree — lies dead on the forest floor. Its trunk has been sawed into two large sections, a message scrawled on its stump in red marker ...

From humble beginnings traipsing through California’s vast forests with his dad to salvaging wood from forest fires, Red Emmerson has built a logging empire by being cheaper and more aggressive ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal plan to open 2,000 acres of the Klamath River watershed to logging will harm threatened coho salmon and degrade its critical habitat, in violation of the Endangered ...

A new gold rush may be on in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, but this time the treasure is burned trees to salvage for lumber.

Environmentalists filed a lawsuit Thursday against a federal agency, saying it aims to protect the California spotted owl living in the burned forests marked for logging after the third-largest ...

U.S. Forest Service, Fish & Wildlife Service sued for logging endangered Pacific fisher habitat in California’s Sierra, Sequoia and Stanislaus national forests.

California requires that clear-cut areas be replanted, so that although logging results in emissions of some of the carbon stored in those trees, replanted areas would eventually compensate.