‘Legacy’ forests. ‘Restoration’ logging. The new jargon of conservation is awash in ambiguity. And politics

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

Washington has few older forests left. Why does DNR keep logging them?

Conservationists want to stop the cutting of “legacy forests.” Logging concerns accuse them of moving the goal posts on “old trees.”

Federal committee pushes for major changes to forest management in Pac NW

Suggested revisions to the 30-year-old Northwest Forest Plan include a call for more cutting in northern spotted owl habitat

How the Gifford Pinchot National Forest got its name. And lost its soul

A new book, Forest Under Siege, presents a complex picture of one of the Pacific Northwest’s grandest treasures

Can ‘two-eyed seeing’ save our forests?

The Forest Service is becoming open to integrating Indigenous land management practices into its own work

Why no one knows exactly how much old-growth forest we have left

To use older trees to fight climate change, we need to know where they are. But new maps created by the Forest Service aren’t that detailed

Whitebark pines are in trouble. That means our water supply is, too

A nationwide effort to save the whitebark pine in underway. A big part of the story is happening in the Pacific Northwest

Can redwoods and sequoias produce offspring in the Pacific Northwest?

If not, new efforts to migrate the species to the region might need continued human management