President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies to increase logging on national forests nationwide, including in Washington state, counter to decades of environmental policy and protections. A ...

Emily Fitzgerald / Washington State Standard Washington loggers, school leaders and conservation activists on Wednesday decried the state lands commissioner’s proposal to set aside 77,000 acres of ...

Can Washington state hold off harvesting older forests in the face of a projected $12 billion budget deficit without impacting local governments and school districts that get money from those timber ...

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources can move ahead on projects to store carbon in forests, a Thurston County judge ruled. (Marty Cozart/DNR) Forests on Washington’s public logging ...

Washington's Commissioner of Public Lands is addressing a memo from the Department of Agriculture that raised concerns about the future of the state's national forests. Around 59% of all national ...

COLVILLE, Wash. – The Trump administration is moving to rescind the federal Roadless Rule, potentially opening Washington state forests to increased logging and road construction after more than two ...