Normally, it's illegal to chop down a tree in a national forest. This month, however, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is all for it—provided you get yourself a Forest Service-issued permit first.

Does your family celebrate Christmas with a decked-out, real, live Christmas tree? Did you know that you can head into your local national forest to cut down your own wild Christmas tree for just $5?

A project to restore natural woodlands by removing dense white pine plantations in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest on Martha's Vineyard is stirring debate among residents, environmentalists, and ...

The family of Benjamin Cossel, public affairs officer for the Stanislaus National Forest, cut its own Christmas tree off Highway 4 in a previous year. Permits for 2025 were announced in mid-November.

A canopy of coniferous trees near Utah Ridge Pond in Wayne National Forest is seen from below. The Trump administration wants to increase timber harvesting in the more than 100 million acres of ...