FRIANT, Calif. (AP) – Two cowboys on horses pushed cattle across an expanse of golden hills overgrown with tall grasses and oak trees, up an unpaved road toward another pasture. From the Sierra Nevada ...

For more than 15 years, Oregonians have debated how to manage the vast and rugged Blue Mountains — a sprawling landscape of canyons, forests, and high desert ...

ABINGDON, Va. – Do mining regulations define the logging of Ison Rock Ridge as coal mining activity? Neither a judge nor attorneys in a Friday hearing on the issue could find case law indicating ...

The U.S. Forest Service will seek to repeal a rule that has effectively blocked the logging of almost a third of America’s national forests, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins told a meeting of ...

The darker orange colored parts of the Chattahoochee National Forest, pictured above, are the protected roadless areas, accounting for only 4% of the forest. Roughly 63,000 acres of Georgia forest are ...

USDA to rescind Clinton-era ban on mining, logging and roads in pristine national forests Agency cites need to manage forests due to increase in wildfires Environmental group says roads increase fire ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. WHITEFISH — U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Shultz on Tuesday said America’s national forests need ...

Members of the Republican-controlled U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources advanced a bill Wednesday seeking to block a new rule by the Bureau of Land Management that would put conservation on ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Illegal logging, mining, poaching and other environmentally destructive trade earned criminal gangs up to $258 billion last year, the United Nations said in a report published on ...

Roughly 63,000 acres of Georgia forest are federally protected from roadbuilding and commercial logging, but the U.S. Forest Service is moving to roll back those safeguards, it announced late last ...