At a press conference attended by environmental group leaders, Upthegrove said the Department of Natural Resources will ...

On his first day in office, Dave Upthegrove, the state’s new public lands commissioner, said he would pause logging sales in some older state-managed forests for about six months. In doing so, he’s ...

Logging operations. (Washington State Department of Natural Resources). Washington’s natural resources agency and a nonprofit group have finalized a $121 million purchase of about 20,000 acres of ...

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 ...

COLVILLE, Wash. – The Trump administration is moving to rescind the federal Roadless Rule, potentially opening Washington state forests to increased logging and road construction after more than two ...