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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.

This is the agency’s fourth attempt to implement Jacob Ryan, first planned in 1998. Lininger said the current iteration is more like the earliest one, with less protection for wildlife and what he ...

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 ...

Jamie Dawson with the conservation group Oregon Wild measures a ponderosa pine marked for cutting west of Bend, Ore., Tuesday, March 8, 2022. The group has urged the U.S. Forest Service to spare ...

“They feel they are old growth trees," she said, but to the Forest Service, "they do not demonstrate what are considered the characteristics of old growth Ponderosa pine.” ...

The forests above the Grand Canyon’s North Rim are filled with some of the largest, oldest ponderosa pine trees in the Southwest. Cutting down these majestic giants is a preposterous idea that ...

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. ...

Old growth trees especially, but ponderosas in general, serve such an important role in so many other ways, ... And in April, the ponderosa pine became the official tree of the city of Spokane.

HELENA — Charcoal is what remains of stands of old growth Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir in Magpie Gulch. A rock art expert from South Africa arriving in Helena next ...

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.