CNN

Trump’s Canadian tariffs include lumber. He is pushing to cut down American trees instead.

President Donald Trump is promising to unleash the US timber industry by allowing companies to raze swaths of federally protected national forests. The order — which calls for the ramping up of the ...
Mongabay

As logging intensifies forest fires, Wet’suwet’en fight to protect old growth

Members of Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia want to conserve a pristine old-growth watershed, Caas Tl’aat Twah, in its traditional territory. The nation has obtained a logging deferral for Caas ...
Grist

Logging in disguise: How forest thinning is making wildfires worse

Chad Hanson is an ecologist with the John Muir Project and the author of Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate (University Press Kentucky, May 2021). Earlier this ...
Los Angeles Times

Private land used for logging is more prone to severe fire than public lands. A new study shows why

A before-and-after study of wildfires in the Plumas National Forest compared private timber land with public lands. The results: The orderly arrangement of trees planted for logging leads to more ...
Mongabay

Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea boasts the third largest rainforest in the world and houses about 7% of the planet’s biodiversity, including threatened species found nowhere else in the world. In recent years, ...
The New York Times

Raft by Raft, a Rainforest Loses Its Trees

The vast rainforest of the Congo Basin, one of the most important in the world, has long been protected by its remoteness: In many places, roads are rare. But there is a river. Raft by Raft, a ...