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The Bush administration proposes altering the way the nation's forests are managed. The plan would allow individual forest managers to approve logging and commercial activities on federal land, with less review of potential environmental damages. Hear NPR's Elizabeth Arnold.

David Baron examines why ongoing threats to the world's largest tropical forest now are receiving considerably less public attention than previously.

Missouri's largest landowner is turning over nearly 160,000 acres known as Pioneer Forest to a private foundation. It's the culmination of a career in which he pioneered a method of harvesting forest while also preserving it.

In Brazil, a fast-growing soybean industry is fueled by demand from Europe and China. But foreign consumers are also pressuring Brazilian farmers to stop clearing tropical forests, a major storehouse of the carbon that contributes to global warming.

The home-improvement chains Home Depot and Lowe's seek to fulfill promises to environmentalists to protect and sustain supplies of the lumber they sell. The business rivals are tracking the lumber to its source, seeking to reduce the impact on endangered forests. NPR's Robert Smith reports.

May 9, 2013Fiddleheads are the whimsical, tightly coiled spiral of fern sprouts that push their way up from under the layers of winter debris on the…

Last year, Congress passed a bill to expand Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park to nearly twice its current size. Many support the expansion, but a lack of funds has delayed the project, while looters clean the unprotected land of valuable artifacts. Mark Brodie reports.

In the woods of Durham, Connecticut, large trucks with big wheels and giant robotic arms are grabbing trees and slicing them down.

As humans have cut into Brazil's forests, the toucan population has taken a dive. The trees, in turn, have changed, too: Without large-billed birds to eat fruit with big seeds, only trees with small seeds thrive. Eventually, one scientist says, "the impacts on the forest could be quite dramatic."

Forest officials closed the San Juan National Forest in southwest Colorado because of "historic levels" of fire danger. The closure will affect local tourism economies.