Timber folks know the history—most I met in redwood country used words like nuked, hammered, blitzed, wasted, and raped to describe the logging of the past. The landscape bears them out.

Proposed changes to the Northwest Forest Plan could endanger old-growth forests in California and the Pacific Northwest.

Redwood logging severely depleted California's ancient redwood forests throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the demand for redwood lumber drove the logging industry to capitalize on ...