High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the West. Wood smoke filled the Bitterroot Valley for much of the summer as ...

Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system. They reduce the buildup of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and land degradation by ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include ...

This is old-time logging, Kamps said. Chain saws whine in the winter-sharpened air. Skidders clank and bounce across the frozen ground. Logging trucks back into narrow alleys between 20-foot-high ...