However, the proposal was rejected in favor of a plan that aims to quintuple the amount of logging in the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests and expand logging and roadbuilding into sensitive ...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail ... and protects the 2,200-mile trail from Georgia to Maine. After tens of thousands of hours of work by volunteers and the National Forest Service, all but about ...

A coalition of conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service on March 27, alleging the violation of three federal laws. The lawsuit alleges that one of the justifications for increased timber ...