Proposed changes to the Northwest Forest Plan could endanger old-growth forests in California and the Pacific Northwest.

Remote, wild, and scenic – this sums up Umpqua National Forest in a nutshell. We overshot our initial camping spot near a ...

Oregon hides a waterfall wonderland just 26 miles east of Salem that feels like stepping into a fantasy novel—minus the talking animals (though I wouldn’t rule them out entirely). Silver Falls State ...

Welcome to Silver Falls State Park, the 9,200-acre wonderland near Sublimity that somehow remains Oregon’s best-kept ...

There is a such thing as old growth forest in South Dakota, and just how old this forest is will blow your mind.

Republican-led policy directives could rewrite forest policies that affect public lands in Oregon ... mature and old growth ...

The caption: “going on a stupid hike for my stupid mental health.” On this week’s episode of Peak Northwest, we talk to southern Oregon resident Andy Neal, creator of the videos, who has ...

On the shores of Lake Tahoe at Emerald Bay State Park grows what some consider to be the most iconic old-growth forest in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Giant ponderosa pines — some of the last remaining ...

is counter to decades of environmental policy in the Pacific Northwest, where federal forests have been largely off-limits to logging of old-growth trees since the Northwest Forest Plan ...

British Columbia-based forestry giant Interfor reaped an estimated $1.8 million in net profit from logging in old ... growth areas that were meant to be preserved, a decision by the province’s ...

In 2018, the U.S. Forest Service began issuing hiking permits at the site in an effort to reduce crowds. --Jamie Hale covers travel and the outdoors and co-hosts the Peak Northwest podcast.