MEDFORD — Vandals contaminated the fuel of a log loader being used in a tree thinning operation near Ashland. The Jackson County sheriff's department says the equipment was vandalized over the weekend ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tree sitting has become a popular way to protest logging operations, despite its danger. A man with the environmental activist group Earth First! died this week after he fell more ...

George had a huge spruce tree cut down by the power company and they just left it on his front lawn. Only thing we knew what to do with it is split it into camp fire wood with the American CLS animal.

March 8, 2007 The logging of forests is a very expensive affair, and when there’s a lot of money involved, you can always count on some very special machinery. Two perfect illustrations of this are ...

Opposition to post-wildfire tree removal in Oregon is growing and shifting from legislative hearings to protests among environmental activists. The Oregon Department of Transportation is removing ...

When it comes to timber harvesting, removing the whole tree—from stump to twigs—doesn’t reduce plant diversity any more than old-fashioned logging, which leaves tree branches behind in the woods. As ...

These are tough times for loggers. The big trees have gone the way of the buffalo, and a sizable percentage of the smaller ones that remain are off limits, due to tough environmental strictures. But ...

The first autonomous logging machine rumbled down a Swedish forest path and scanned for stacked logs to transport. It then scooped them up with a crane and loaded them onto its trailer. A new study of ...

A mission to undo decades of damage to the redwoods of California caused by unchecked logging involves even more logging — and chain saws. The California redwood forests, once heavily logged, now face ...