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Advocates say federal spending on wildfire prevention could rebuild forest industry jobs and help rural communities. Critics say the plan relies too heavily on logging.

In Blodgett Forest, west of Lake Tahoe, researchers grapple with the state鈥檚 forest-management history while investigating what it means to have a healthy one.

Researchers with Oregon State University say the U.S. needs to protect more of its forestland to preserve wildlife and reduce the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.

Drought and intense heat waves delivered a 鈥渒nockout punch鈥� for hundreds of thousands of acres of Oregon trees this summer, researchers say.

Senate Bill 335 aims to reduce conflict of interests among Oregon鈥檚 State Board of Forestry members and the timber industry.

A proposal to convert a money-losing state forest into what鈥檚 being touted as a world-class outdoor research lab is moving forward.

The term "leafy neighborhood" came into common use a couple of years ago. It signifies what a lot of people want: some cool shady trees to blunt the harsh鈥�

"Highly modified by human influence." That's the U.S. Forest Service's brief description of the condition of the Upper Briggs Creek watershed west of鈥�

The focus in wildfires tends to fall upon the damage: the trees lost, the homes destroyed. But ecologists often remind us that fire is part of the forest鈥�

Crater Lake would just not be the same without that big blue lake. Would it be very different without the big whitebark pine trees? There's a chance we鈥�

Dead trees happen. But a LOT of dead trees happening all at once is a cause for concern, and it led to the creation of a Sudden Oak Death Syndrome Task鈥�

Lone Rock Timber and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians were ready to take over part of the state-owned Elliott State Forest, but Oregon leaders had鈥�