The U.S. Forest Service is using emergency authority to advance the Bear Palmer Forest Health Project, but opponents say the ...

State experts said they’re dubious about President Donald Trump’s claims that his directive opening up well over half of the country’s forests to logging will reduce wildfire risk and “save American ...

Daniel Kim/Seattle Times via AP On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden stood among cherry blossoms and towering Douglas firs in a Seattle park to declare the importance of big, old trees. “There ...

President Donald Trump’s new executive order to increase domestic timber production could have a disastrous impact on climate change, endangered species and local economies dependent on ecotourism, ...

MOUNT WASHINGTON — A forest scientist says that a stand of sugar maples in an area slated for logging by the state should be “defended” for its climate-cooling features. Lee E. Frelich, director of ...

The Forest Service said that timber harvest is a small threat to mature and old-growth forests, compared to heat, drought and disease. The mounting effects of climate change are much bigger threats on ...

WASHINGTON — The state has paused the October Mountain State Forest logging and management project to determine whether the plan is climate friendly. The state Department of Conservation and ...

Groups blasted the Green Mountain National Forest plan, which had been touted as a model for carbon reduction and old-growth protection. A proposal to log thousands of acres of national forest in ...

"Moving from cutting the size of Connecticut every year to cutting the size of my home state of Rhode Island every year is progress." ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden stood among cherry blossoms and towering Douglas firs in a Seattle park ...