Logging

Congress Is About To Legalize Liquidation Of National Forests

May 16, 2026 Jim Pattiz, Resilience. Educate! Congress, Democrats, Forests, Logging

Brooke Rollins, the USDA Secretary who called the Roadless Rule an “absurd obstacle” to forest management, declared an emergency just over a year ago on 112 million acres of your national forests — 59 percent of the entire National Forest System. In the Tongass, the “obstacle” she wants removed is 800-year-old cedars. The declaration has been operating since April 2025, exempting logging projects from the environmental reviews, public comment periods, and administrative objections that have governed federal forests for fifty years.

Calling Bull On Forest Service And Timber Industry Propaganda

May 16, 2026 Mike Garrity, Counter Punch. Create! Forests, Logging, Lumber, Wildfires

If you’re wondering why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies wins 80% of its lawsuits against Forest Service logging projects, the answer is simple: It’s because the agency repeatedly breaks the laws that govern management of our forest ecosystems and the fish and wildlife that depend on them. Rather than follow the law, however, the Forest Service and timber industry fund scientists and corporate research groups to falsely claim that environmentalists are to blame for wildfires. It’s the same tactic the tobacco and fossil fuels industries used to find a few scientists to claim smoking doesn’t cause cancer and global warming doesn’t exist.

Indigenous Leaders Sue Quebec To Halt Forestry Permits

February 23, 2026 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Canada, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Logging, Quebec, Sovereignty

After years of protests and blockades, a group of Atikamekw elders and chiefs have filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel forestry permits across a vast stretch of northern Quebec. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Quebec’s Superior Court, challenges the province’s authority to issue forestry permits within Nehirowisiw Aski, the ancestral territory of the Atikamekw, without properly consulting them. Lawyers for the group describe the case as unprecedented, saying it is the first time that land defenders — a traditional role not formally recognized in Canadian law — have directly asserted Aboriginal title through the courts.

Logging Blockade Brewing In Alberta’s Rocky Mountains

December 23, 2025 Drew Anderson, The Narwhal. Resist! Canada, Encampment, Logging, Water Protectors

The woods surrounding the Highwood Pass, a mountain valley southwest of Calgary, are quiet. The traffic snarls of fall, which brought day trippers flocking to see larch trees pop yellow against the green hills, are gone. The road through the pass is closed until the spring. Gone too is a temporary camp and barrier across a logging road, set up to protest in advance of clear-cut operations in this popular corner of Kananaskis Country along the rocky spine of southwestern Alberta. At least for now. At first blush, it’s odd for protesters opposed to logging to leave the area before the logging starts, but that wasn’t really the point of the camp set up by a group called Defenders of the Eastern Slopes.

Alliance For The Wild Rockies Files Lawsuit To Stop Massive Clearcutting

August 25, 2025 Mike Garrity, Counter Punch. Resist! Biodiversity, Endangered species, Environment, Fish, Logging, Montana

Bull trout lost approximately 60 percent of their historic range before they were even listed as ‘threatened’ on the Endangered Species List in 1998. Yet the Forest Service wants to bulldoze and clearcut some of Montana’s few remaining, most pristine, bull trout watersheds that flow out of the Great Burn of 1910 area. Given the bull trout’s struggle against extinction, we’re going to court to halt this highly destructive project. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit on August 22 in federal district court in Missoula challenging the Redd Bull 2 logging project in the Superior Ranger District of the Lolo National Forest west of St. Regis, Montana.

Forest Protectors Launch Tree Sit And Lawsuits To Stop Ecocidal Logging

July 7, 2025 Curtis Johnson, Truthout. Resist! Forests, Logging, Tree Sitting, Washington State

Standing at the edge of the Aldwell Forest clearcut just above the Elwha River in Washington State, the Murphy Company’s devastation of the landscape slaps you in the face. Here on land owned by the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR), a beautiful mature forest has been logged for hardwood, plywood, and other wood products. Hacked-off stumps are visible in all directions, a few trees left to stand. The former forest floor, once rich with organisms and nutrients that fed life, now stands heaped into huge slash piles to be burned. The land doused with herbicide to kill any competitors to Douglas fir seedlings that will become a new tree plantation monoculture.

Order To Expand Logging Threatens To Increase Climate-Fueled Wildfires

May 19, 2025 Curtis Johnson, Truthout. Educate! climate crisis, Donald Trump, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Logging, Wildfires

On March 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.” The order claimed “onerous Federal policies” have hindered domestic timber production and that expanding logging was a matter of protecting “national and economic security.” It ordered the secretary of the Interior and head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), who oversee the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) respectively, to develop a plan to expand timber targets and streamline permitting “to suspend, revise, or rescind all existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, settlements, consent orders, and other agency actions that impose an undue burden on timber production.”

Timber From Illegal Logging In Amazon Discovered In US, European Markets

April 6, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Amazon, climate crisis, European Union (EU), International Law, Logging, United States

A new investigative report, Tricks, Traders and Trees, by international NGO the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals widespread illegal logging, corruption and fraud in the Brazilian Amazon. The investigation traced illegal timber that had originated from five logging sites in Pará state to the United States and European Union, despite laws that prohibit the importing of illegal timber and require due diligence from companies. “Our investigation shows how illegal Amazon timber is flooding EU and U.S. markets, fueling unfair competition for legitimate companies despite laws banning the trade in illicit wood.

Forest Defenders Launch Tree Sit To Stop Old Growth Logging

April 8, 2024 Sean Summers, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Forest Defenders, Logging, Oregon, Tree Sitting

Josephine County, Oregon — In rural southern Oregon, community members are reigniting a dormant battle against logging. On the morning of April 1, a group of activists walked onto federally-managed public lands set to be logged. Climbers scaled an old growth ponderosa pine and hoisted a wooden platform over 100 feet into the air, suspended from the tree. It’s from this perch that a protester is now blocking access to a swathe of old growth forest at risk of being cut down. The blockade is preventing logging that’s part of the Poor Windy Forest Management Plan.

New Film: Colonialism And Capitalism Are Decimating Our Forests

August 28, 2023 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast - Clearing The FOG Capitalism, Colonialism, Forests, Logging

Award-winning producer, activist and artist Eleanor Goldfield has a new documentary out, To The Trees, about forest defense in the Redwood Forests of Northern California. Beautifully filmed and composed, Goldfield shows the decimation of our old-growth forests and efforts to stop this crime while placing the struggle in the broader context of colonialism and capitalism. Clearing the FOG speaks with Goldfield about how she connected with forest defenders, the experience of making the film and what we can all do to protect our last remaining Redwoods, the giants of carbon sequestration. Aptly named, To The Trees will inspire you to embrace and protect our forests.

Activists Organize Direct Action Against Logging In California

June 5, 2023 Noa Cykman, Resilience. Strategize! California, Environment, Forest Defenders, Logging

A customer entering Home Depot, the largest home improvement retailer in the United States, will find elegant redwood with a certification of “sustainable forestry” available. Humboldt Redwoods Company (HRC) provides this shiny commodity. The company claims to be reducing the use of herbicides, and selecting trees for cutting, rather than “clear-cutting” (general clearing of an area). The agent that creates the concepts and criteria of selection and of sustainability, however, is the company itself.[3] For instance, they commit not to cut “old growth trees,” despite there being no scientific or consensual definition of the age or conditions that would characterize those.

Call For Solidarity From The #EkoniAci Movement

May 14, 2023 Montreal Counter-Info, It's Going Down. Resist! Blockade, Canada, Indigenous Rights, Logging, Solidarity

In order to enforce the moratorium on logging on their territory, Nitaskinan, members of the Atikamekw of Manawan are currently setting up a new blockade. It is located at km 16 on the road to Manawan, north of St-Michel-des-Saints. Logging companies have been informed that they will not be able to return with their machinery when the thaw occurs on May 19th. We need to be many to ensure that they respect this instruction. It is possible to come now to help set up the camp. Those who can free themselves, the most sensitive moments are likely to be from May 19 to 26. The blockade will remain in place afterwards and solidarity will still be necessary.

Innu Communities Say Logging Threatens Their Cultural Identity

December 2, 2022 Brent Patterson, PBI Canada. Resist! Canada, Environment, Indigenous Sovereignty, Logging

The Montreal Gazette reports: “Two Innu communities on Quebec’s North Shore say they are ‘exasperated’ by the province’s ‘inaction’ when it comes to protecting the woodland caribou, a species threatened by logging.” “They say the Quebec government is not taking seriously ‘the irreversible damage the loss of biodiversity’ has on the Innu.” The article adds: “Councils representing the Pessamit and Essipit communities on Tuesday accused the province of dragging its feet on a proposal to create a 2,700-square-kilometre biodiversity reserve, about 150 kilometres north of Saguenay.” Marielle Vachon, head of the Innu Council of Pessamit, says: “[The loss of biodiversity] caused in large part by logging on Innu ancestral lands — without regard to our needs, our values, our rights and interests — generates inestimable cultural losses for our communities.

Weyerhaeuser Strike Enters Fifth Week

October 14, 2022 Don McIntosh and Colin Staub, Northwest Labor Press. Resist! Logging, Strike, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

At four sawmills, two log export facilities, two statewide log truck operations, and seven logging camps, 1,100 Weyerhaeuser workers have been on strike since Sept. 13 over a basic union principle, fairness. Weyerhaeuser, after reporting record profits of $2.6 billion last year, proposed that its workers make concessions: accept wages that lose ground to inflation, and start paying a share of health insurance premiums. Weyerhaeuser is one of the rare employers that pays the entire health insurance premium, a benefit that used to be standard, and workers think if they give that up, it may never get better. Northwest Weyerhaeuser workers already agreed to concessions in their most recent contract, including a two-tier set-up which terminated the pension for new hires.

Activists To Rally Against Renewed Logging In State Forest

August 31, 2022 Mary Callahan, The Press Democrat. Resist! California, Direct Action, Environment, Logging

California - Community, environmental and tribal activists opposed to renewed logging in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest plan to rally in the forest Sunday and warn of potential civil disobedience in the future. The notice comes in response to a Cal Fire announcement that tree cutting would resume as early as this week on at least one of four incomplete timber harvest plans in the Mendocino County forest. Those plans were recently revised to halt removal of the largest trees. The return of logging crews ends an eight-month pause on tree removal that allowed state officials to start rethinking priorities for the nearly 50,000-acre forest and begin negotiations with local tribes that are seeking co-management rights.

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