Forests

Editor’s note: Pacific NW magazine’s weekly Backstory provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writer’s process or an extra tidbit that accompanies our cover story. This week’s cover story introduces readers to the Seattle forest ecologist who finds, climbs and illustrates our biggest trees. WHILE SCRAMBLING UP a remote Northern California mountainside hunting for foxtail pine in late July, I began …

Venkatesh, tasked with tranquilising an injured wild elephant in Hassan, was trampled to death by it in what his son has blamed as negligence by forest officials  ‘Aane Venkatesh’ was trampled by an injured wild elephant as he was trying to tranquilise it. Photo: M Raghuram Experts have claimed that protocol was not followed after a sharpshooter from the Karnataka …

A federal magistrate judge recommended on Thursday that the U.S. Forest Service stop cutting larger, mature-growth trees East of the Cascades. The recommendations are a potential victory for six conservation groups that filed a lawsuit against the Forest Service last year, a response to a change made in the final days of the Trump Administration to allow the removal of …

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2023 – Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is investing $20 million to fund 30 research studies to develop new technologies and data that will increase restoration of degraded forests, grasslands, and watersheds. The funding, provided by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, also supports shared efforts between agency scientists, tribes, …

CADILLAC, Mich. – Fall color fans have a new tool for following the spectacular change of seasons across nearly a million acres of Michigan forestland. The Huron-Manistee National Forests, which span nearly one million acres across the Lower Peninsula, have launched their 2023 fall color interactive map. The continuously updated map allows viewers to select different colored icons within the …

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has found that a Trump-era rule change that allowed for the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates several laws. U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act when it …

Nafplio, a seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece. Getty Images Text size Mykonos, Santorini, and Athens may endlessly captivate tourist attention, but restauranter Nick Tsoulos, who founded the renowned Greek seafood Avra Estiatorio brand with Marc Packer and Nick Pashalis, says that the real heart of Greece is the Peloponnese. Born and brought up in the town of Nafpaktos, …

A retired forest guard was killed by a wild elephant while attempting to provide medical treatment to the injured tusker at Halliyur in Alur taluk in the Hassan district on Thursday. The forest guard, identified as Venkatesh (67), was an expert in tranquillising wild elephants. A 67-year-old retired forest guard was killed by a wile elephant in Hassan district on …

ATHENS, Greece — Greek firefighters rescued a group of 25 migrants trapped in a forest in northeastern Greece Friday as flames from a massive wildfire burning for two weeks approached, authorities said. The fire department said the group became trapped in the forest between two villages in the Evros region, near the border with Turkey. No injuries were reported. There …

Two days before he left office, a political appointee for President Donald Trump removed protections from old-growth trees in Oregon and Washington. On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman ruled that decision was illegal. Hallman vacated the U.S. Forest Service’s finding that the change would have no impact, and ordered the agency to carry out a full environmental impact statement …