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 ...

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. ...

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.

Forest defenders have been camped on a platform over 100 feet high in an old growth Ponderosa Pine since April 1, protesting the agency’s intentional targeting of mature and old growth forest ...

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 ...

GOLD CREEK – In the middle of a stand of old-growth ponderosa pine in the Gold Creek drainage, nature conservationists had every reason to celebrate on Sunday. At the start of January, The ...

A pioneer homestead in the middle of an industrial timber area preserves some of the last old-growth Ponderosa pine trees in the Gold Creek basin 17 miles northeast of Missoula.

The view from where activists are taking turns sitting high up in a ponderosa pine tree in a Bureau of Land Management forest in Oregon. Siskiyou Rising Tide This story was updated at 2:45 p.m. EDT.

In the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota, for example — which at 180,000 acres holds the largest targeted tract — mature ponderosa pine trees are targeted for removal.

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 ...