It takes special skills and equipment to cut big trees in rugged terrain. Only hand fallers could work the steepest slopes on ...

Just inland from the Pacific Northwest’s rainforest drip line, with more than 10 feet of rain a year, are the forests ...

Among environmentalists, government agencies and logging interests, a war of words is raging over the future of our forests.

These forests, they say, are some of the last patches of their kind in western Washington, containing trees that are around a ...

This is a great week to score bargains at the garden center or nursery, especially if there are any leftover spring-blooming bulbs. If you have deer that visit your garden, plant daffodils — they are ...

Fall color is here! Well, in Washington we are approaching the peak. It usually arrives mid-late October. While the colors of ...

The teeth of the mower chewed through a stand of small trees and shrubs 30 miles from Mount Rainier and belched out a brown ...

According to climate science nonprofit Climate Central, the climate can impact everything from the color of autumn leaves to ...

About a week or so after Election Day every year, the aroma in the cool air begins to change downtown in the 1,300-population ...

Too young to save? The issue isn’t that Department of Natural Resources must log old trees to keep up with demand for wood. Most of the agency’s holdings consist of younger forests, many of ...

These big trees, in their roots, needles and branches, hold more carbon longer than any young plantation. They are world ...