HELENA, Mont. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service announced the release of the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail Comprehensive Plan. The plan is a blueprint for the trail ...

The Advisory Council will meet about once a month, for 1 ½ to 2 hours, to develop shared recommendations for how the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail should be developed and managed.

Hood National Forest, where the fire danger is rated ... dry and hot conditions increase the risk of wildfires in the Pacific Northwest. It’s expected to last through mid-October.

For months, national forests in ... the proposed update to the forest plan for increasing the amount of timber that could be logged from Pacific Northwest forests. Most of that logging would ...

Dec. 31—The U.S. Forest Service has released a comprehensive plan for the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail, marking a milestone for a route established in 2009 but used by hikers for ...