Anytime the summer is hotter or cooler, drier or wetter than usual, you will see news stories about farmers, with speculation about damaged crops or losses. Minnesota's loggers also depend on the ...

Minnesota Forest Industries executive vice president Rick Horton gave me a strong counterpoint to the views expressed in my Oct. 31 column, which highlighted the charge by some retired Department of ...

A century ago today, Minnesota lawmakers succumbed to common sense and public outrage and established the Minnesota Forest Service -- the first state agency assigned to battle incessant wildfires and ...

When 114 red pines were bulldozed inside Red Lake Wildlife Management Area last year to create new habitat, infuriated Minnesota timber industry officials denounced the trees' felling as "destruction" ...

Minnesota's forests can sustain logging 5.5 million cords of wood each year, about double the current harvest level, according to an analysis released Monday by the Minnesota Department of Natural ...

ST. PAUL — An audit found the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources failed to properly plan and document logging in the state’s wildlife management areas, making it unclear as to whether the ...

More than a dozen Minnesota logging companies banded together to raise money for Log A Load For Kids, an annual nationwide campaign in which loggers and others in the forest products community donate ...

Q: Minnesota derives great benefit from having healthy, productive forests. What role does logging play in maintaining or improving forest health? A: Minnesota’s forests are a renewable resource. And ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- Landowners are paying the cost when loggers follow voluntary guidelines to lessen the industry's impact on land, water and wildlife in the state's forests, a new University of ...

Anytime the summer is hotter or cooler, drier or wetter than usual, you will see news stories about farmers, with speculation about damaged crops or losses. Minnesota’s loggers also depend on the ...