(MENAFN- The Conversation) In the late 19th century it was tin mining that drove the economic life of Derby, about 100 km from Launceston in north-eastern Tasmania. But the mine has long closed. From ...

Tourism businesses have called for native forest logging to stop, and questioned the decision to log the coupes over summer Sustainable Timber Tasmania says coupes include high-quality sawlogs that ...

WASHINGTON — Around 40 activists converged at October Mountain State Forest Saturday to protest the state’s proposal to open bids to private companies to log on hundreds of acres here of forestland.

WASHINGTON — The state has paused the October Mountain State Forest logging and management project to determine whether the plan is climate friendly. The state Department of Conservation and ...

BELLINGHAM - Logging began this week on 215 acres on Galbraith Mountain, and some trails in the popular mountain biking area will be off-limits during the project. Janicki Logging will do the work for ...

Right now, chainsaws and log skidders are destroying one of Western North Carolina’s most beautiful and biologically diverse old growth forests. The U.S. Forest Service’s Brushy Mountain logging ...

ROCHESTER, Vt. — Along a hillside deep in the Green Mountain National Forest, where thousands of decades-old spruce, maples, and other hardwoods were thriving until earlier this year, there’s now a ...

Logging projects that used to come under intense scrutiny around the Roaring Fork Valley may soon be whisked through the approval process due to action by the U.S. Congress. Different versions of the ...

A plan to log most of the timber in a 100-acre parcel of state-owned land on Basalt Mountain has been put on hold. Officials with the Colorado State Forest Service and Division of Wildlife decided ...

A state trust land exchange could be used to protect all of a 1,600-acre piece of Blanchard Mountain in Skagit County from being logged. That’s what state Reps. Jeff Morris, D-Mount Vernon, and Kris ...

The Southeast city of Ketchikan has been fighting for decades to prolong the life of its timber industry, which has been battered by a pulp mill closure and a dwindling supply of trees to cut. So it ...