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In Oregon, mass timber is increasingly being viewed as a construction material that could help the state build more affordable homes and revive rural logging towns.

The world took notice of the summer's fires in the Amazon region of Brazil. The tropical rainforests are often called "the Earth's lungs" for the oxygen…

Lyme disease is scary, plain and simple. It can cause a host of problems in humans, including damage to the joints, the heart, and the nervous system. And…

There tends to be a controversy attached to any official designation of a wilderness area. The argument against wilderness set-asides is that they…

Conventional wisdom says forests in the West are overstocked and need to be thinned to prevent “catastrophic” wildfires. But some researchers say focusing…

The Governor's Council on Wildfire Response estimates the state will need $4 billion in funding to reduce wildfire risks through actions such as logging overstocked forestland.

Fire season has already begun, with the usual discussions of which fires are burning where, and how big.Scientist Dominick DellaSala of the GEOS Institute…

The Timber Wars tore Ashland apart. Wildfire prevention brought it back together.

Last year was the most expensive wildfire season ever. Federal agencies alone spent more than $2 billion on suppressing fires in 2015 and an estimated…

Fire and water both figure prominently in the state of the forests in our region. The size and intensity of fires indicates and determines forest health,…