Forests in the Pacific Northwest may be losing value due to wildfire risk and volatile timber pricing, according to a new ...

Rising wildfire risk in the Pacific Northwest combined with notoriously volatile timber pricing may lower forestland values ...

Foresters are looking to hone their management of Douglas fir trees in the wake of a new state report that says a changing climate likely will worsen the spread of a root-devouring fungus. A special ...

A deadly pest may lurk somewhere in east Asia, an insect or a fungus that could decimate the Pacific Northwest's vast forests of Douglas fir should it ever reach this region's shores. The possibility ...

Another dip in lumber prices’ seven-year roller-coaster ride could dash Mendocino County’s hopes for earning money and generating jobs by harvesting its 50-acre forest south of Mendocino. The county ...

In 2008, scientist Bryan Black took core samples the diameter of a pencil from a forest near the north Oregon coast. Most of the trees were hemlocks and Douglas fir that had been undisturbed for about ...

Creating diverse forests for multiple uses is important to natural resource managers and landowners. The findings from a 1983 study conducted in southwestern Oregon provide forest managers with ...