It’s a big year for forest conservationists in Oregon, who are using a variety of tactics— deploying different levels of civil disobedience—to fight against continued old growth logging around the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An iconic swathe of old growth forest in west Polk County is among the 2. 5 million acres the Bureau of Land Management has ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Land Management has determined that the project won’t have significant environmental impacts. Environmentalists sued several federal agencies Tuesday in a bid to stop a timber harvest in ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity sent a notice today to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of its intent to sue the agencies for approving a ...

Twenty years ago, Washington State decided to end old-growth logging, protect forests, and transition to a more sustainable ...

Editor's note: In honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Statesman Journal and its sister publication, The Register-Guard, are embarking on a yearlong ...

A Trader Joe’s store in southeast Portland is set to reopen on Monday after it closed due to asbestos exposure in early March, according to a company spokesperson. A 32-year-old Beaverton man was ...