Covering lush forest terrain and lined with rugged hiking trails, the Appalachian Mountains are a mountain range system ...

Of the nearly 800,000 acres of trees that Helene downed, about 187,000 lie in national forests. Salvage logging — a practice scientists and forest advocates have long questioned — is the Forest ...

MISSOULA, Mont.— Conservation groups sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management today for approving a massive logging operation in the Garnet Mountains that would threaten important connectivity habitat ...

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access seams of coal. It takes place in the Appalachian Mountains, one of the oldest ...

The Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee are the tallest mountains in the Appalachian chain ... at the devastation caused by industrial logging in the mountains. Giant lumber companies ...

WHITLEY COUNTY — The U.S. Forest Service’s proposed logging project in the Jellico Mountains is nearing its final stages after years of public opposition, legal scrutiny, and alternative planning.