The Working-Class Loggers Who Saved an Old-Growth Forest Often cast as villains in the Northwest’s environmental battles, timber workers have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs.

Having recently completed a timber sale on a family 40, I was reminded of how important loggers are to our society and economy. More important, most of them just really nice people. The northern ...

An industry study calls for more youth engagement, new workers and modern operations to better serve Oregon’s dwindling ...

Stretches for Limber Loggers is a new resource developed by woods workers and Maine AgrAbility to help loggers keep their bodies in good working order. Photo courtesy University of Maine and ...

Since the late 1800s, logging has been a major industry in the Pacific Northwest, and its impact on the region's economy and environment have been significant. For the towns that depend on logging ...

Logger Sam Lincoln explains the details of a logging operation in Tunbridge on Thursday, Feb. 2. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Most loggers work between 160 and 180 days per year, according ...

KALISPELL (AP) -- Forest thinning projects aimed at reducing wildfire risk are keeping loggers and log haulers at work during the housing slump.

KERBY - A protester was arrested Tuesday after suspending himself from a log 40 feet over the Illinois River and briefly blocking logging in a national forest roadless area.