Sitting in an old-growth spruce fir forest, Doug Smith says he can see first-hand the impact of reintroducing wolves on the larger ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park. Long before Yellowstone ...

Connecticut’s forests were largely replanted 150 to 250 years ago. “A large majority of it is what we would refer to ...

B.C. plans to log old-growth forest, threatening endangered southern mountain caribou habitat, despite commitments to ...

Initiatives to restore European primary forests and thereby reverse centuries of decline are gaining traction. Such restoration could deliver significant ecological, environmental, climate-related and ...

Photo: Community members protest the proposed Pagosa West development at the Pagosa Springs Town Hall, March 2025. Below are ...

On the 40th night of the protest, a black Jeep drove up a logging road and stopped near the base of a towering grand fir.

As trees grow larger, their heartwood proportion increases and eventually accounts for most of the biomass. Heartwood decay ...

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 ...

Christopher Mock, 24, walks through old-growth forest in the Mount Hood National Forest on June 25, 2004. Rick Bowmer,/AP ...

Peter Beedlow, a scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, stands among a group of old-growth Noble fir trees in the Willamette National Forest, Ore., Oct. 27, 2023.