Peter Stark’s North Slope Sustainable Wood company is one of the success stories of the new green movement in woodworking. A noted author and fervent environmentalist, Stark says he became an ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Christmas tree cutting season has arrived in Colorado’s national forests, but you’ll need to do some homework before you go because each forest determines ...

Normally, it's illegal to chop down a tree in a national forest. This month, however, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is all for it—provided you get yourself a Forest Service-issued permit first.

Does your family celebrate Christmas with a decked-out, real, live Christmas tree? Did you know that you can head into your local national forest to cut down your own wild Christmas tree for just $5?

TRUCKEE, California (KGO) -- California forests are under extreme threat right now with more than 60 million trees killed by insects and drought in the past five years. And it's not just dead trees ...

The family of Benjamin Cossel, public affairs officer for the Stanislaus National Forest, cut its own Christmas tree off Highway 4 in a previous year. Permits for 2025 were announced in mid-November.

That data covers the seven national forests that are entirely or mostly in Montana: Beaverhead-Deerlodge, Bitterroot, Flathead, Custer Gallatin, Helena-Lewis and Clark, Kootenai and Lolo.

LARAMIE – Permits to cut Christmas trees on the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests in northwest Colorado and southeastern Wyoming are available for purchase. Tree tags for the 2025 Christmas season ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Christmas tree permits for New Mexico’s national forests are now available for purchase online. The permits provide access to designated cutting areas within forests such as Carson ...

Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone. Biologist Teresa Ryan has seen a lot of clear-cuts and loaded logging trucks. But this ...

Botanists surveying a remote forest reserve on Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago have discovered a forest of rare trees — the only place in Africa where they’re known to occur in the ...

You can cut down your own Christmas tree in Florida's Ocala National Forest. A $10 permit is required for each tree and can be purchased online. Tree cutting is only allowed in two specific, ...