In the American West, there are other types of old-growth forest. Dry ponderosa pine woodlands are similarly open in structure and contain trees up to nearly 1,000 years old.

In the American West, dry ponderosa pine woodlands are similarly open in structure to longleaf pine savannas and contain trees up to nearly 1,000 years old.But perhaps the most familiar old-growth ...

Meador says an old-growth ponderosa pine forest would “look wildly different” from a spruce-fir forest, as they grow at different places in Arizona mountains with varied life cycles. ...

GOLD CREEK – In the middle of a stand of old-growth ponderosa pine in the Gold Creek drainage, nature conservationists had every reason to celebrate on Sunday. At the start of January, The ...

Forest defenders have been camped on a platform over 100 feet high in an old growth Ponderosa Pine since April 1, protesting the agency’s intentional targeting of mature and old growth forest ...

A pioneer homestead in the middle of an industrial timber area preserves some of the last old-growth Ponderosa pine trees in the Gold Creek basin 17 miles northeast of Missoula.

A tree sitter is stationed at the top of an old-growth Ponderosa pine in the Bureau of Land Management's Poor Windy project area in Josephine County. Justin Higginbottom / JPR News.

For years, land managers discussed developing a fuel treatment plan for the Beaver Creek Pinery, a stand of largely old-growth ponderosa pines and black oaks in Lassen National Forest’s 41,000-acre ...

In the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota, for example — which at 180,000 acres holds the largest targeted tract — mature ponderosa pine trees are targeted for removal.

The view from where activists are taking turns sitting high up in a ponderosa pine tree in a Bureau of Land Management forest in Oregon. Siskiyou Rising Tide This story was updated at 2:45 p.m. EDT.

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 ...