Mongabay

Selective logging leads to clear-cutting in the Amazon rainforest

A new study links selective logging to clear-cutting in the Amazon rainforest. The research is significant because it identifies “an important indicator of rain forest vulnerability to clear-cutting ...
OPB

Timber tax cuts cost Oregon towns billions. Then clear-cuts polluted their water and drove up its price

This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of ...
Los Angeles Times

As Trump tweets about California fires, his administration wants to expand logging

Reporting from FRAZIER MOUNTAIN, Calif. — Logging has long been among California’s most divisive environmental issues — and the controversy shows little chance of cooling as the Trump administration ...
Kitsap Sun

Logging near Clear Creek Trail allowed on conservation easement

SILVERDALE — Angry e-mails were sent to the Great Peninsula Conservancy and the Clear Creek Task Force last month after logging took place around Earth Day at Petersen Farm, and confusion ensued over ...
Mongabay

Bird sanctuary in Malaysia damaged by illegal logging and forest clearing

According to the New Straits Times, loggers are illegally clearing the protected forest of Gunung Panti to plant oil palm. Gunung Panti, once a world class destination for bird watching, is designated ...
Calgary Herald

Clear-cut logging plans scaled back in parts of Kananaskis, but conservationists' concerns remain

Clear-cut logging plans impacting popular trail areas in Kananaskis have been reduced in some places while accelerated in another — and conservationists remain concerned over their potential impact.