Old-growth forests are rare — less than 7 percent the area of U.S. forests today — and are still often logged. To recover forest ecosystems across the United States, it will not be enough to ...

Biden Administration Withdraws Old-Growth Forest Plan After Getting Pushback From Industry and GOP BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to ...

The report, from three B.C. conservation groups — Wildsight, Stand.earth, and the Wilderness Committee — uses provincial ...

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.

BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization.After spending more than two years drafting a plan to manage and protect the nation’s old-growth forests as they endure the ravages of ...

As a part of the amendment process, it is important for the U.S. Forest Service to incorporate the best available western science and Indigenous knowledge to proactively steward old-growth forests ...

Among the various stages of forest growth at Erie Bluffs State Park are some trees likely so old their trunks were already gathering rings when the 1800s became the 1900s.. The ages of the state ...

So the U.S. Forest Service set to work replanting trees. And decades later, though the Forest Service says there are no old-growth forests in the national forests of Texas, we now have 400,000 ...

Oregon’s forests were once full of old-growth, but today, less than 10 percent of old-growth trees still stand, environmental advocacy group Oregon Wild estimates. Despite their essential role in ...

The Biden administration is dropping its plan to conserve old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation.

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 ...

That decision by the U.S. Forest Service to shelve the National Old Growth Amendment ends, for now, any goal of creating a cohesive federal approach to managing the oldest trees on the 193 million ...