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 ...

Elliott Corbett Memorial State Park in the Deschutes National Forest, central Oregon. Pictured is primarily matrix land in the foreground, with late successional reserves in the background. (Lily Roby ...

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FILE - Old-growth Douglas fir trees stand along the Salmon River Trail, June 25, 2004, in Mt. Hood National Forest outside Zigzag, Ore. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File ...

(Scripps News) Logging would be allowed in millions of acres of national forest in Washington, Oregon and California, including older trees currently off-limits to cutting, under proposed amendments ...