The U.S. House of Representatives voted May 20 to ease bureaucratic obstacles to forest-thinning activities on 20 million acres of the nation’s most fire-prone federal lands. The bill has the backing ...

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team forest thinning projects are underway in the Lake Tahoe Basin. These projects are expected to continue for the next several weeks with some projects ...

Thinning, the practice of removing some trees to promote the growth of others, is a common forestry management technique, but ...

Forest thinning increases water supplies downstream while reducing wildfire risk, according to a study conducted by Salt River Project and Arizona State University. Land managers and scientists knew ...

On Oct. 17, more than two weeks into the ongoing government shutdown, the Flathead National Forest’s district ranger in Swan Lake proposed an emergency logging and thinning project west of Blacktail ...

Carroll and others say a lack of thinning in Alabaugh Canyon contributed to the intensity of the Alabaugh Fire, which killed one man and burned 33 homes. But Carroll pointed out that of the 10,000 ...

PAYSON — When lightning ignited chaparral and ponderosa pine litter to form the West Fire one night in late August, U.S. Forest Service fire managers knew they had some room to let it run. Flames ...

This sections of forest near Colville, Washington, seen in June, has been thinned, allowing trees to grow less densely and reducing the risk for wildfire. COLVILLE, Wash. — Deep in the Colville ...

An Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry subcommittee will hold a hearing on forest-thinning legislation. A Senate subcommittee will take testimony this week on legislation to step up forest thinning ...

Timber industry leaders are working on bringing a 200,000- square-foot mass timber production facility to Redding.

Not only did forest thinning slow the spread of last summer’s Hayman Fire in Colorado, it helped prevent subsequent damage from erosion, according to a study conducted by the U.S. Forest Service (HCN, ...

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team forest thinning projects are scheduled to continue for the next several weeks, conditions and weather permitting. Some projects are expected to ...