It’s a viral Instagram post that makes a startling claim. President “Trump has ordered over 100 million hectares of forest” — the equivalent of 280 million acres — “to be chopped down,” reads the text ...

President Donald Trump has promised to “drill, baby, drill.” Now, he also wants to log. On Saturday, Trump directed federal ...

President Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at undermining safeguards for endangered wildlife and bypassing other environmental protections to radically increase logging and road ...

All wildfires across North Carolina's National Forests have been contained or mostly contained, according to a 1:45 p.m. news release from the U.S. Forest Service on March 4. The Falls Dam Fire, ...

The “God Squad" is called that because it can approve federal projects even if it leads to extinction of a species otherwise ...

President Donald Trump is promising to unleash the US timber industry by allowing companies to raze swaths of federally protected national forests. The order — which calls for the ramping up of ...

The U.S. Forest Service, which stewards 193 million acres of public lands from Alaska to Florida, was in trouble even before ...

All wildfires across North Carolina's National Forests have been contained ... reporter for the Asheville Citizen Times, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at iseaton@citizentimes.com.