Old-growth forests in Oregon's Coast Range absorb and store more carbon per acre than almost any other forest in the world.

Connecticut’s old-growth forests were all cut down hundreds of years ago and, though there is a significant amount of tree cover across the state, the age of the forests make them more susceptible to ...

The Biden administration moved on Tuesday to conserve groves of old-growth trees on national forests across the U.S. and limit logging as climate change amplifies the threats they face from ...

Aug. 20, 2020 — Scientists studying leaves from a 23-million-year-old forest have for the first time linked high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide with increased plant growth, and the hot ...

Forty-eight House Democrats signed a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack in strong support of U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS) proposal to amend all land management plans across the ...

An old-growth forest of noble fir trees at Marys Peak in Oregon’s Coast Range. Beverly Law , CC BY-ND Old forests are critically important for slowing climate change and merit immediate ...

A pristine stand of old-growth forest on Vancouver Island targeted for logging has caused a massive protest with nearly 1,000 arrests. Opponents are digging in and preventing loggers from reaching ...

The Forest Service and federal Bureau of Land Management combined oversee more than 50,000 square miles (129,000 square kilometers) of old growth forests and about 125,000 square miles (324,000 ...

Because definitions of old growth differ, the decline in these types of forests vary, but estimates from the U.S. Forest Service show that old growth covered more than 32 million acres between ...

Their trees haven’t yet attained the 160 years that qualifies as old growth west of the Cascade Range, ... support less biodiversity than the complex ecosystems in old-growth and legacy forests.

Environmental groups sue to block old-growth logging project in Oregon’s Coast Range. ... Brahler added that old-growth forests are playing crucial roles as carbon sinks and stores as the ...

Since November 2021, the province has been engaging with First Nations about deferring harvesting within old-growth forests. That same year, the B.C. NDP amended the Forest and Range Practices Act ...