He said fuels reduction projects should clearly be fast-tracked but expected lawsuits would slow the process. “The challenge in trying to get more logging contracts has always not been necessarily who ...

This week, the USDA Secretary Brooke L. Rollins issued a memo declaring an emergency situation on national forests and taking ...

Log hauling will not occur on weekdays from ... It’s unclear when or if the Durango Hills project, an 1,100-acre fuels reduction effort to protect the neighborhood northeast of Durango, and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has authorized emergency logging across 113 million acres of National Forest System land, ...

A federal judge ruled against the Bureau of Land Management’s efforts to log old-growth forest reserves. In 2023, local ...

The Deschutes National Forest has opened up a comment period for the public to weigh in on a large-scale fuels reduction ...

East Bay Parks has nearly quadrupled its fuel reduction staff in the past five years to take on the Herculean task of bringing the forest back into order, including the addition of Fuels Reduction ...

Since 2000, the Deschutes National Forest has planned and implemented hazardous fuels reduction projects to reduce the risk of undesirable wildfire impacts to the communities and infrastructure of ...

The Forest Service has been conducting fuel reduction projects on the east side of the Cascades since 2000. The proposal to treat 153,000 acres includes 91,000 acres in the wildland-urban interface.

The Deschutes National Forest announced Tuesday it is seeking public input on its Fuels Maintenance Treatments Project, covering nearly 153,000 acres across the east side of the forest in Deschutes, ...