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 ...

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 ...

The proposed changes also would greatly increase logging, burning and thinning within national forests in the plan areas. For 30 years, stands of trees 80 to 120 years old in nati ...