Timber groups and rural lawmakers also said the orders could help manage overstocked forests and reduce the threat of ...

Any effort to cut protected areas — especially by working around the Endangered Species Act, as the order suggests — would be challenged in court, Boyles said. The nation’s forests are ...

On the eve of the release of a highly anticipated plan to cut 175 acres of white pines from the Island’s largest conservation ...

About two-thirds of the carbon storage in forests happens underground, not in the trees, research shows. Still, when trees are cut down, the carbon gradually reenters the atmosphere. Too much ...

Timber groups and rural lawmakers also said the orders could help manage overstocked forests and reduce the threat of wildfire. But conservation groups and forestry experts say cutting down more ...