Nearly 1,400 acres of state-owned forests near Lake Whatcom will be newly protected from logging as part of an initiative announced Wednesday, April 6, by Washington’s Department of Natural Resources.

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 ...

CAPITOL STATE FOREST, Thurston County — Older than Washington state, the biggest Douglas firs on this patch of state forestland have stood through more than a century of logging. Part of a 180-acre ...

Timber industry executives say they agree with a Washington Department of Natural Resources decision to shut down logging operations in the eastern part of the state due to wildfire danger. It’s the ...

Logging companies may need a geotechnical report before they start cutting trees in landslide-prone areas of Washington. The state Forest Practices Board approved a rule Tuesday making it clear that ...

The most ancient trees still standing in America’s national forests would get new protections under a proposal the Biden administration announced Tuesday that would ban most logging in groves that ...