First discovered: 1:34 p.m. Aug. 26 A new wildfire was reported today at 1:34 p.m. in Siskiyou County, California. Log Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service ...

Private timberlands in Northern California are more likely to see high-severity wildfire than areas in and around public forests, a new study found.

New research explains why forests planted for logging purposes fuel devastating wildfires more often than untouched land.

Logging in a Michigan national forest. The Los Angeles Times reported that the order will touch all 18 of the California's national forests, which collectively span more than 20 million acres.

Will Southern California embrace logging of its ‘sky island’ forests? Southern California has struggled to chop back forests in the name of wildfire prevention, according to a Union-Tribune ...

As counterintuitive as it might seem, logging could be one way to help make California’s woodlands more wildfire resilient. Unfortunately, the process is beset with its own unique set of supply ...

Some officials are advocating allowing logging to thin forests in order to reduce the number of fires. In California, in the aftermath of the Rim Fire, which blackened 400 square miles of the ...

California’s logging industry has been shrinking for years, with an aging workforce and fewer young people entering the trade. But in Northern California, a community college is stepping in to change ...

Stumps left from cut trees are seen in Yosemite National Park in July 2021. The nonprofit Earth Island Institute has filed a lawsuit to stop logging in the park, arguing that the “biomass ...