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You can now purchase the log cabins from Disney’s Fort Wilderness Campground for $20,000

The popular "log cabins" at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Campground and Resort are now for sale.  Earlier this year, Disney updated a loop of their cabins located at...

10 of the Best Log Cabin Kits to Buy and Build

If you consider yourself handy but still need a little help, these log cabin kits are exactly what you need to get the job done.

50 Dream Homes in the Woods That Will Make You Long to Escape It All

They say fences make great neighbors, but acres of gorgeous trees are even better.

These wooden giants are hiding in Copenhagen’s forests

Danish artist Thomas Dambo is inspiring nature lovers to explore the unknown depths of Copenhagen’s forests.

🌲🌳 Learn About Forest Products with these Education Resources

Forest Managers get to know the forest they work in through lots of exploration, observation, and recording of information. A Forest Manager then makes a plan for how people can improve the area by providing a balance of all things needed for survival in that area. In this activity, you will become a manager of an area near where you live.

Researchers Uncover Just How Damaging Fires and Logging Are to Forest Soil

Forest soils recover from disturbances slowly over many years—up to 80 years following a wildfire and as many as 30 years after logging, much longer than previously thought.

Logging destabilizes forest soil carbon over time, study finds

Logging doesn't immediately jettison carbon stored in a forest's mineral soils into the atmosphere but triggers a gradual release that may contribute to climate change over decades, a Dartmouth College study finds.

Fire, more than logging, drives Amazon forest degradation, study finds

The shrieking rip of a chainsaw and the muffled roar of fire: both of these sounds are associated with extensive destruction of Amazon rainforest. But is logging or human-caused fire a larger issue for the fate of the Amazon? And when such activities culminate in a partially degraded forest – rather than complete deforestation – …

Forests as a climate solution? Yes, naturally

Sponsored: Forests clean air and water, provide economic well-being, support biodiversity, provide forest products that people depend on — and serve as the world’s oldest carbon storage technology. That’s worth talking about.

Logged native forests mostly end up in landfill, not in buildings and furniture

Victoria has some of the most carbon-dense native forests in the world. Advocates for logging these forests often argue that wood products in buildings and furniture become long-term storage for...

Why Our Forests Are Burning

The answer is complex, but at the root of it all: a destructive combination of climate change and reckless land use.... Continue Reading

How Foresters, Loggers, Forest Owners and the Forest Industry Became Champions for Clean Water

We provide leadership in sustaining the economic, environmental and social benefits of the South's forests, and work to identify and address existing and emerging issues and challenges that are important to southern forests and citizens.

What are ghost forests?

Mission critical: How to map a forest

New technology can help arm the forestry industry in a world of growing threats.

Compensating for Forest Loss or Advancing Forest Destruction?

A method of licensing deforestation in one place by claiming to ‘compensate’ for the destruction elsewhere – is accelerating both, the destruction of forests by big corporations and the appropriation of community land for the supposed compensation.

Salvage logging can reduce fuel availability for decades after a forest fire, study finds

A U.S. Forest Services study found that post-fire logging can reduce fuel availability in forests for up 40 years after a fire, culling risk of reburn.

How Drought Affects Forests and Streams

Across the U.S., forested watersheds filter surface water that drains into the rivers that supply drinking water for many of the nation’s cities. Besides providing high quality water for humans needs, forest trees regulate streamflow, mitigate flooding, and help create and maintain the water conditions that support healthy aquatic ecosystems. Drought affects the ability of…

How to Restore Native Forests on a Small Scale

Reforestation needs to happen globally, including your backyard. Learn about different approaches to creating forest ecosystems.

Forest cover increases, but questions remain

Instead of focusing only on data, take into the qualitative aspects of the resource too