Illegal logging has become one of Latin America’s most frequent yet under-reported criminal economies. In this investigation, InSight Crime presents its findings into the dynamics of timber ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. Over 20% of the world's tropical forests have been selectively logged, and large expanses are allocated for future timber extraction.

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Trump administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards related to future logging projects in more than half of national forests under an emergency designation announced ...

A federal judge vacated approvals for three logging projects in Oregon and ruled the U.S. Forest Service could not use a ...

Despite national and international bans, there are clear indications that the illegal trade in Madagascar's precious timber is still rampant. The following case illustrates the oversight and ...

Logging is not necessarily a dirty word in the environmental dictionary. There, I said it. Provided sustainable practices are used, namely the careful choice over what trees get chopped down, logging ...

Indonesia’s trade ministry has scrapped a requirement for wood exporters to obtain licenses verifying their wood comes from legal and sustainably managed sources. The SVLK verification system took a ...

PORT ANGELES — Dozens of protesters and counter-protesters lined U.S. Highway 101 to rally for or against the sale and logging of Aldwell timber, roughly 90 acres of what conservancy groups determined ...

The Allegheny is primarily a hardwood forest, and many of its dominant species are shade-intolerant. Foresters like Saf and ...

The timber industry for decades drove the economy in Oregon, a state where nearly half of the land is forest. Today, the industry has changed. Logging in federal forests, once a major source of lumber ...