Logging

Oregon State University Department of Forestry Logging Sports team hosted the 2026 edition of the Spring Thaw, a logging sports competition.

The Bureau of Land Management is preparing a revision to how much logging is allowed on O&C Lands. That proposal is causing excitement and criticism.

Environmental groups worry the draft plan lacks teeth. Officials say it needs to last up to 70 years.

The U.S. Forest Service plans to auction off trees in the Deschutes, Wallowa-Whitman and Umatilla national forests by the end of the month.

The Republican-backed budget bill that passed in the U.S. Senate Tuesday authorizes dramatic increases to logging on federal lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. But Oregon counties won’t see most of those revenues if the bill clears the U.S. House unchanged.

Republican-led policy directives could rewrite forest policies that affect public lands in Oregon and the rest of the West.

There will be no clearcutting of trees above homes on Yachats’ south side – at least not for the next 25 years.

U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies under proposed changes to a sweeping forest management plan that’s been in place for three decades.

The Boaz and Forest Creek timber sales in the Applegate Valley are meant to harvest Douglas fir trees impacted by recent outbreaks of invasive beetles and drought.

Old-growth trees provide vital wildlife habitat, help forest ecosystems and store massive amounts of carbon. But some activists in Southern Oregon claim the Bureau of Land Management is allowing the logging of old-growth trees despite recent calls by the Biden administration for protection.

A traveling exhibit at the High Desert Museum in Bend depicts an early 20th century Oregon lumber town with a difference: The company there employed both Black and white loggers.

A group of environmental activists blocked the entrance to Sierra Pacific Industries' lumber mill in Eugene to protest the company's contract to commercially thin public forest lands in western Lane County.