SEATTLE — British Columbia’s government announced Wednesday amid an international dispute that it will no longer allow timber sales in the Skagit River’s headwaters. The Seattle Times reports the ...

SEATTLE (CN) – British Columbia will stop logging in the headwaters of the Skagit River due to environmental concerns, the province’s government announced Wednesday. All timber sales in the area’s ...

As demonstrators in British Columbia protest the logging of one of the province’s last old-growth forests, journalists have been impeded from covering the story. Moreover, indigenous journalists take ...

Loggers’ sports evolved out of the forestry industry more than a century ago, testing loggers’ skills throwing axes, sawing logs and chopping timber. As more formal competitions emerged, the ...

Nov 2 (Reuters) - Canada's British Columbia province said on Tuesday it would work with indigenous groups to defer logging of rare and ancient trees as part of a strategy to modernize the timber ...

Total industry revenue reaches $12.4 billion, split nearly evenly between contract and non-contract logging, as expenses fall ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 4 (Reuters) - Several thousand lumber workers on Canada's Pacific Coast will strike this weekend unless a contract deal is reached with their employers, the union ...

The battle at Fairy Creek, a fight over some of the planet’s oldest trees, has raged for two summers and has led to the most arrests ever for a protest in modern Canadian history. At stake is some of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. British Columbia’s ruling New Democratic Party last autumn pledged to conserve 353,000 hectares (1,363 square miles) of old-growth forest. But so ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 20 (Reuters) - Timber workers on Canada's Pacific coast will begin a long-awaited strike at midnight Friday, with all the region's unionized lumber firms behind ...