Logging

A new management plan for Oregon’s western state-owned forests is one of two recent plans the Board of Forestry approved to boost conservation and reduce logging.

The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to hire more foresters, forestry technicians, land surveyors and heavy equipment operators to increase timber sales in Oregon.

The federal government has released its long-awaited proposal to triple logging across three national forests in northeast Oregon and southeast Washington.

A new lawsuit challenging a logging project in Oregon threatens to unravel the management plans governing hundreds of millions of acres of federal public land.

An appeals judge overturned a lower court’s decision dismissing Jewell School District’s lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Forestry over logging revenue

Federal judge rules BLM ignored “significant evidence” of protected old growth forests within its logging plans.

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

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.

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.

A recent federal budget bill includes some good news for Oregon counties with O&C land.

The Bureau of Land Management’s state office in Oregon increased its timber sales in 2025, leading to one of its largest years for sales by board-feet and dollars in decades.

The Northwest Forest Plan has long protected vulnerable species like spotted owls in federal forests along the West Coast.