Logging

Oregon’s congressional Democrats are asking federal officials to give the public more time to learn about and comment on new plans that would open up millions of acres of federal forests in Oregon to logging activity not seen since the 1960s.

Environmental activists in Southern Oregon say the fight to protect forests has grown more difficult under the Trump administration.

You have until Monday to provide input on the Trump administration’s plan to dramatically increase logging in western Oregon forests.

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.