Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Old-growth forests are lifeboats for biodiversity, reservoirs of clean water, and carbon-storage warehouses." Here, a road cuts ...
New York City may be a symbol of modernity and human achievement, but just a few hours from one of the world's most famous cities is not one but two ancient forests, which precede the arrival of man ...
Polk County's Valley of the Giants is among the old growth forests listed as potential sites for a federal logging expansion.
Western North Carolina is lucky to be home to some of the South’s oldest forests. These awe-inspiring places can be hundreds of years old and provide some of the most unique outdoors opportunities in ...
Joan Maloof, who leads the Old Growth Forest Network, explores the forest near a trail junction. She will speak at SUNY Cortland on Sept. 13. In 1736, Benjamin Franklin founded the country’s first ...
The naturalist John Muir once wrote that “between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” That’s the experience of hiking through the piney woods of East Texas, where one enters the wild, can ...
The weakest showing for any of the 16 resolutions adopted at a national forest policy conference was one urging protection of old growth. Saving the nation’s oldest forests remains a priority among a ...
I am writing to urge the Forest Service to ban logging and development of Washington’s oldest trees on federal land. Some of Washington’s most iconic mature and old-growth forests are at risk of ...
There are trees in some parts of the United States that are older than William Shakespeare. The Pacific Northwest old-growth forests, which stretch for hundreds of miles through parts of Northern ...
When people think of thick forests, towering trees, and lush rainforest understories, Wyoming isn't the first state that comes to mind, thanks to its long (and somewhat agonizing) stretches of high ...
No, this is not a repeat. But as the state Department of Natural Resources plans to harvest old-growth timber in Clark County, the issues sound familiar. The agency is proposing the harvest of 156 ...
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