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

The U.S. Forest Service will revise management plans for 128 national forests and grasslands to protect old-growth and mature habitats. The agency will create a first-of-its-kind national forest plan, ...

Standing at the base of a large, old-growth ponderosa pine along the Metolius River on a recent sunny day in May, I discussed the various unique adaptations of this charismatic tree that dominates the ...

James Johnston has been studying trees in the Blue Mountains that are older than America, and he’s disturbed by how many trees, after surviving for a few centuries or longer, died during a single ...

WOLF CREEK, Ore. – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was pressured by activists to remove an area with ancient trees that was set to be logged as part of the Poor Windy project. This decision comes ...

A UC Davis field crew measures a large ponderosa pine while conducting forest inventory in the Emerald Point old-growth stand at Lake Tahoe. Ancient ponderosa pines that once grew in a open-canopied ...

Justin Higginbottom / JPR News A logging company has canceled a proposed road within a Bureau of Land Management project in Josephine County. Activists had claimed that construction of the route ...

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, more ...