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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — The state has paused the October Mountain State Forest logging and management project to determine whether the plan is climate friendly. The state Department of Conservation and ...

On his first day in office, Dave Upthegrove, the state’s new public lands commissioner, said he would pause logging sales in some older state-managed forests for about six months. In doing so, he’s ...