Washington Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove said his department may have to log more mature forests unless it gets permission to try to make money by not cutting trees. Upthegrove acknowledged at a ...

The University of Idaho has appointed Randy Brooks as UI Extension director and associate dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. An Extension employee for more than 35 years, he starts ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is considering killing a second wolf in a pack attacking cattle in Asotin County is southeast Washington. Fish and Wildlife confirmed Sept. 23 that the ...

Blackfoot-area farmers Jerry and Valerie Bingham have sued the Idaho Department of Water Resources over a 2025 curtailment. The department “took the Bingham family’s private property (water rights) ...

A federal judge said he won’t allow the U.S. Department of Labor to take a year to develop new wage rates for seasonal foreign farmworkers, saying the delay will hurt domestic farmworkers. U.S.

Indian almond imports — primarily from California — are expected to rise 8% this market year to reach 187,000 metric tons on a shelled basis. Roughly 89% of those shipments will come from the Golden ...

A major creditor wants a minimum price to be included in the proposed sale of Anderson Hay’s business assets after raising several concerns about the deal. Anderson Hay of Ellensburg, Wash., recently ...

Payette National Forest managers and staff plan prescribed fire operations in west-central Idaho this fall, pending required approvals. Work on the projects is expected to continue through December as ...

A Thurston County, Wash., judge stayed a rule requiring larger riparian buffers on Western Washington timberland, putting on hold a regulation that would take 200,000 acres out of production. Superior ...

Depriving crops of summertime irrigation is sometimes an unfortunate necessity during Western droughts. But in some cases, farmers and researchers are withholding water by design — and still achieving ...

Wildfires have scorched more than 2.5 million acres so far this year in Oregon — a new and unfortunate record — and the state has allocated nearly $123 million in emergency funding to cover ongoing ...

Washington farmers had the second-highest labor costs in the U.S. last year, behind only California and well ahead of any other state, according to the USDA Economic Research Service. Washington ...