Two years ago, Sealaska Corp. gave the Trump administration a prescription for managing the region’s millions of acres of forest. Open more areas to logging, the Alaska Native corporation urged, ...

New federal laws could “lock up” timber land for decades at a time, raising concerns big companies could elbow out smaller competitors and that timber revenue for counties could be delayed for years.

Elliott Corbett Memorial State Park in the Deschutes National Forest, central Oregon. Pictured is primarily matrix land in the foreground, with late successional reserves in the background. (Lily Roby ...