Firefighters have been fighting to put out the blaze on the 320-foot-plus Douglas Fir in Oregon Coos Bay District Bureau of Land Management/AP One of the world's tallest non-redwood trees is on fire ...

A historic coastal Douglas fir tree known as the Doerner fir, which is believed to be 450 years old and is 325 feet tall, was burning in a fire east of Coquille on Aug. 17, according to the Coos ...

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, more ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the absurdly long pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny, ...

On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden stood among cherry blossoms and towering Douglas firs in a Seattle park to declare the importance of big, old trees. “There used to be a hell of a lot more ...

“As humans, our everyday lives are sustained by the behaviors and interactions of forest organisms,” photographer David Herasimtschuk writes of old growth forests. “Yet, because these processes and ...

NPCA supports the U.S. Forest Service’s plan to protect rare, old-growth forests and leave our largest trees standing for future generations. Here’s why and where to find these majestic trees. Few ...