The world’s 100 most significant timber and pulp companies score just 22.6%, on average, when assessed across 175 environmental, social, and governance indicators, according to the latest assessment ...

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Ashley Short, Policy Manager for Cascade Forest Conservancy, has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Policy and Planning and a Certificate in Environmental Law. Ashley Short, Policy Manager for ...

For decades, our nation’s efforts to conserve resources and protect the environment have been challenged by the utilitarian argument that the best action is that which maximizes usefulness or benefit.

As the EU parliament debates a common forest strategy, we need to look beyond promoting intensive forestry for maximum timber yield under the flag of climate change. Forestry practices that preserve ...

Of the many tools that pioneers used to shape the land that became Indiana, it is the axe that is commemorated on the state’s seal. And for good reason: The tool allowed settlers transform the ...

When loggers headed into the Willamette National Forest on Easter Sunday in 1989, they found a line of protesters blocking the road. The ensuing battle would help catapult old-growth forests into a ...

For furniture consumers and manufacturers alike, ensuring timber is both legal and sustainable is tricky in Southeast Asia, where supply chains are blighted by illegal logging, poor forest management ...

Large companies trading in timber and other wood products meet just one quarter, on average, of the 22 best practice indicators for deforestation and biodiversity, according to the latest report ...