DOERING: The New England Forestry Foundation recently received $4.3 million from the U.S. Forest Service, and your maps of Maine’s old-growth forests are playing a big role in how they plan to ...

Current old-growth forest definitions recognize that tree species, climate, soil productivity and disturbance history all influence the development of old-growth forests. You can read a full ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced yesterday that it’s rescinding a landmark rule that prevents road construction and timber harvesting in the last unfragmented stretches of national ...

Biden admin nixes old-growth forest plan. By Marc Heller | 01/08/2025 01:34 PM EST . The Forest Service’s proposal to limit logging in old-growth areas of national forests was sure to be ...

On the shores of Lake Tahoe at Emerald Bay State Park grows what some consider to be the most iconic old-growth forest in the ...

This includes a movement to protect mature forests, which are made up of trees that are 80-150 years old and viewed as comprising the next generations of old-growth forests. David Herasimtschuk / ...

FILE - Old growth Douglas fir trees stand along the Salmon river Trail on the Mt. Hood National Forest outside Zigzag, Ore. A federal judge has found that a Trump-era rule change that allowed for ...

The Biden administration is dropping its efforts to issue a policy to protect old-growth forests — though the president previously touted protecting such forests as an important component of his ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the trees’ pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny ...

This has left us with a fraction of the old-growth forests that once stood in the U.S. In the Pacific Northwest, barely a quarter of the old growth we once had remains standing. And those forests ...

There are clues that signal to hikers they have entered the prized, 32-acre swath of old-growth forest at the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in Gibraltar Township.

Some of Washington’s most iconic mature and old-growth forests are at risk ... Environment America has gathered over 250,000 public comments from concerned citizens calling on the Forest ...