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David Brower of member station KRWG in Las Cruces, NM reports on efforts made to find markets for small trees. Many agree that these trees must be cleared from forests to prevent destructive wildfires, but without a market for the small timber, logging companies can't afford to cut them.

NPR's Mark Roberts reports from McCall, Idaho that there are dozens of major fires burning in 10 western states. US Army soldiers, are preparing to join regular firefighters in an effort to contain the wildfire in the Payette National Forest. Groups of soldiers are receiving training from members of elite firefighting teams.

Fires continue to rage across the west - the nation's worst fire season in more than ten years. This morning Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck met with fire strategists at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. He is now touring fire lines and assessing the situation. From KBSX in Boise, Sadi Babits reports.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that even as the fires are doused in the west, the debate over how best to manage the nation's public forests is heating up in Washington, DC. While both sides sound like they agree on the best policy, when they get down to the details of policy, they may still be miles apart.

NPR's David Baron reports that wild turkeys, once endangered, are now making a comeback in the nation's forests. Unregulated hunting and the widespread clearing of land for farming had made the turkeys rare...but now, after careful monitoring and preservation efforts, the birds are staging a remarkable recovery.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports on illegal logging of rainforests in Liberia. Since the end of the country's civil war in 1997, the export of timber has been the government's main source of revenue. But now conservationists are worried that under the current rate of depletion, the forests may not be there 10 years from now.

Rescuers have come to the aid of a hiker who became stranded along a steep Mount Washington trail.The U.S. Forest Service says Frank Tonioli of Halifax,…

Ingrid Lobet of member station KPLU reports on the scramble to do business in the Russian Far East. Huge reserves of oil and gas as well as timber and other natural resources are about to be exploited, and entrepreneurs who cut their teeth in the Alaskan oil fields and northwestern forests are eager to try their hand in Russia.

Investigators spent months searching for the owner of the elaborate treehouse hidden in a national forest near Seattle.

The wildfire burst into Yosemite National Park on Friday after growing to more than 105,620 acres, the U.S. Forestry Service says. Gov. Brown declared a state of emergency for San Francisco, 150 miles away, because of the fire's threat to public utilities.