A conservation easement will likely help protect forest land in north-central Idaho, including this area on the St. Joe River Credit: RANDY BEACHAM PHOTO COURTESY TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND St. MARIES, ...

A federal appeals court has sided with environmental groups over logging private land that was once part of the Elliott State Forest. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed a 2022 ...

This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of ...

EUGENE, Ore.— A U.S. District Court judge issued a ruling today preventing Scott Timber from clearcutting old-growth forest that was previously part of the Elliott State Forest. The court found that ...

JOHN DAY, Ore. — A coalition of businesses, including the Prairie Wood Products sawmill, logging contractors and ranchers, has filed an antitrust lawsuit in federal court against John Day-based ...

As a small crew worked last week cutting down timber in a spruce-fir forest south of Collbran on Grand Mesa, a rain cloud scudded overhead and moistened the scene. It was an isolated shower, though, ...

CHENEY, Wash. — It's difficult to even fathom all the loss. Tom Turley, still clad in slippers, surveyed the damage to one of the shops at his Cheney business. He's been up since midnight when the ...

JOHN DAY — A coalition of businesses, including the Prairie Wood Products sawmill, logging contractors and ranchers, filed an antitrust lawsuit on Thursday, Sept. 15, in U.S. District Court in ...

HULETT—Jim Neiman says that the best-case scenario for his family’s timber mill at the base of the Bear Lodge Mountains is that it doesn’t shutter. The Crook County sawmill in 2022 shrunk to one shift ...