Some of the wildest country in the U.S. is in Washington state's Cascade Range, reached by old logging and jeep roads that give way to high alpine trails. NPR's Brian Mann sends an audio postcard.

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 ...

A long-awaited policy on the forests that will become the next generation of old growth brought out many critics at the first ...

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 ...

Facing budget strains, loggers, elected officials and environmentalists rebuked Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove on ...

Re: “Lands commissioner’s logging ‘pause’ upsets a careful calculation” (Jan. 31, Opinion): On Jan. 15, his first day as the new Commissioner of Public Lands, Dave Upthegrove announced a six-month ...

A section of the Colville National Forest is shown in this file photo Steve Ringman The Seattle Times/TNS The Pacific Northwest is fortunate to have vast forests and ideal conditions for growing trees ...

WESTBROOK, Conn. (WTNH) — Serious injuries were reported in a second crash on Interstate 95 in Westbrook on Friday morning.

State Police say a Washington County man died in a logging accident Tuesday. At about 4:30 p.m., troopers responded to the area of State Route 149 in Fort Ann. They found 76-year-old Leslie H.

MOUNT WASHINGTON — A forest scientist says that a stand of sugar maples in an area slated for logging by the state should be “defended” for its climate-cooling features. Lee E. Frelich, director of ...