The Trump administration is calling in the chain saws at scores of national forests, including the 18 in California, hoping to ramp up timber production in places that millions of Americans visit each ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Forest Service officials say they tried to balance competing interests in a plan that will allow loggers to remove trees killed in a massive Central California wildfire last ...

A yellow machine rumbles along a ridge in the Stanislaus National Forest on an early July morning, kicking up clouds of dust and mowing down trees with remarkable speed. The diesel-powered “feller ...

An activist named Alder ascends a redwood tree named Gemini, where tree sitters have been camping intermittently on a platform to protect it from being cut down as part of the Caspar 500 Timber ...

A man fishing in the Gualala River, dwarfed by redwoods. (Chris Marshall/CNS) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) --- A federal judge said Thursday he is unlikely to stop a logging project that opponents say will harm ...

This photo of the Gualala River was featured in a federal complaint in September 2020 challenging a plan to chop down old-growth Redwood trees in a 342-acre area around the river. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — ...

FORT DICK, Calif. — Wonder Stump Road passes beneath a canopy of needled redwood boughs that scatter sunbeams and cast an otherworldy green hue. A drive along the narrow one-lane road is quiet.

As California’s wildlife crisis deepens amid forester job shortages, the state has launched a new initiative to build up its forestry ranks. California has 33 million acres of forest land; for the 4 ...

The whir of a disc-saw echoed across Palomar Mountain on a recent December afternoon as loggers cut down hundreds of white fir and incense cedar on a steep hillside dotted with rustic homes. It’s a ...

Kirk Ringgold stands near a stack of logs, many of them burnt in the Creek Fire, while working toward opening a sawmill operation on his property in Auberry, on Thursday, May 13, 2021. President Trump ...