Washington Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove said his department may have to log more mature forests unless it gets permission to try to make money by not cutting trees. Upthegrove acknowledged at a ...

Blackfoot-area farmers Jerry and Valerie Bingham have sued the Idaho Department of Water Resources over a 2025 curtailment. The department “took the Bingham family’s private property (water rights) ...

An Oregon Department of Forestry aerial survey indicates Oregon tree health improved in 2025, with a slight dip in acres showing death and damage due to drought, disease, pests and storms. The U.S.

Esmaeil Fallahi, a retired University of Idaho professor of pomology and viticulture, received the prestigious International Society for Horticultural Science Fellow Award. The society presented the ...

A federal judge said he won’t allow the U.S. Department of Labor to take a year to develop new wage rates for seasonal foreign farmworkers, saying the delay will hurt domestic farmworkers. U.S.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management failed to analyze how grazing would impact areas set aside to study sage grouse habitat in Eastern Oregon, according to a federal judge. U.S District Judge Michael ...

Washington and California head up a 20-state coalition challenging the Trump administration’s reforms to the Endangered Species Act, claiming the reforms will undermine states’ efforts to conserve ...

Indian almond imports — primarily from California — are expected to rise 8% this market year to reach 187,000 metric tons on a shelled basis. Roughly 89% of those shipments will come from the Golden ...

U.S. attorneys filed a new indictment against the last two defendants accused of bringing more than 500 Mexican farmworkers to Eastern Washington to labor and live in substandard conditions. The ...

Payette National Forest managers and staff plan prescribed fire operations in west-central Idaho this fall, pending required approvals. Work on the projects is expected to continue through December as ...

The Intertribal Timber Council and Sustainable Northwest will lead a $1.7 million project to help Native American tribes develop new markets for small diameter logs, brush and other overlooked wood ...

APPLEGATE, Ore. — Sam and Cathy Pennington grow 60 varieties of berries and make value-added products, so they know a thing or two about getting grimy in the fields as well as the comforting smell of ...