Eastern Europe isn’t just under attack from Russia. It’s also under attack from rapacious capital. This story about Ikea demanding to cut the last old-growth forests in Romania may not see
One of the many, many problems with the way we run our economy is that we plunge ahead on every issue without rules and then, maybe just maybe, if things get bad enough, we take some minimal steps on
There’s very, very little to make one feel good about the state of forests in the world or the state of the American West generally. It’s been brutal out here. One of the many problems fac
The entire idea of burning biomass for “renewable” energy inevitably is going to lead to rich parts of the world burning the forests of poor parts of the world. Or not even just the poores
The desire of people to redo their homes in the face of being inside for a year has led to an unprecedented lumber boom. Prices have, in turn, skyrocketed. For years, the price of 1,000 board feet of
Northwestern timber interests remain bitter about the protection of the northern spotted owl. It’s all pretty ridiculous. Not only is there only tiny pockets of unprotected old growth timber lef
The next two months are going to be a shitshow of Trump and his cronies breaking everything they possibly can. That includes in the forest. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) on Wednesday finalized its de
One of the great environmentalist heroes of recent decades is George Atiyeh. Nephew of the last Republican governor of Oregon Vic Atiyeh, this former logger bucked the industry and made a life crusade