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In a 2012 case of tree theft, a man pled guilty to poaching bigleaf maple, Western red cedar trees, and Douglas fir, at least one of which was 300 years old, from Olympic National Forest.
The protest, near Olympic National Park in Washington state, is part of a growing movement aimed at saving decades-old trees ...
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 ...
Barred owls, with their vivid brown stripes, are acting like bullies of the forest in the Northwest, driving their smaller ...
Forests cover about 80% of Yellowstone — the world’s first national park, which is located across sections of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Douglas fir is abundant, particularly in the northern region ...
The Douglas fir, the state tree of Oregon, can grow incredibly tall and live impressively long. The oldest Douglas fir trees have lived to be over 1,000 years old.
The Nature Conservancy, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization focused on environmental conservation, reports that for each Christmas tree cut down, tree farmers usually plant 1-3 saplings.
This tree was 253 years old, and it was typical of these old stands we’re finding. And then I started thinking about Henry David Thoreau, who walked through Maine in 1850-something, he could ...
Talent like this doesn't grow on trees. Curious about how the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree makes the cut year after year? That's the responsibility of Erik Pauze, the head Gardner of Rock ...
What motivates you to photograph old-growth ... It’s even been discovered that certain tree species can grow up ... A young black-tailed deer blends in among a pair of decomposing Douglas fir ...