OLYMPIA, Wash — The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has enacted a burn ban on all forest lands it ...

More fire restrictions are going into effect as land managers try to limit wildfire risk in the heat of summer. The Washington Department of Natural Resources banned all outdoor burning on its land in ...

Ecology has a role in protecting water quality at forestry sites, and our analysis of the draft Forest Practices Board rule ...

Commissioner Dave Upthegrove owes it to beneficiaries of trust lands to finish a data analysis of lands as soon as possible.

Scott Tift, president of the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers Union, said the federal changes will also create ...

Washington state has banned the sale or transport of English ivy and its cousin, Atlantic ivy. The leafy holiday decorations ...

The 91,650 acre Capitol State Forest south and west of Olympia in Thurston and Grays Harbor counties is a place that's always worked hard for Washington. It is patched with clear cuts old and new.

The amount of forest with problems is only a small fraction of the overall 22 million acres state officials looked at, but it ...

Washington state should manage its forest lands for the benefit of all the citizens rather than logging as many trees as possible, without considering the public benefits that forests provide.

There's nothing like a catastrophe next door to focus the mind, especially when your job is to manage public forestlands. The environmental disaster is across the Canadian border. More than a ...