Salem Statesman Journal. In this week's edition of the Explore Oregon Podcast, we're looking at destination hikes where Oregon's magic old-growth trees are the star.

More: This Oregon forest full of old-growth myrtle trees is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. 6: ... He was a World War II vet and barber who lived in Salem.

Oregon community activist Aiden Wilson has lived for three weeks on an 8-by-4-foot platform in an old growth tree located in the southern part of the state. They said it’s a little windy up ...

At 140 years old and 85 feet tall, the Salem tree is a youngster by giant sequoia standards. In California forests, the giants easily soar more than 200 feet, with the tallest measuring nearly 275 ...

Southern Oregon tree sitters protest old-growth logging from 100 feet above the forest floor. By Justin Higginbottom (Jefferson Public Radio) April 11, 2024 1 p.m. Updated: April 11, 2024 6:04 p.m.

PENDLETON, Oregon, September 2, 2023 (ENS) - A Trump-era change in U.S. Forest Service regulations that permitted the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates three separate ...

A more than 400-year-old tree in a research forest at Oregon State University was cut down. Now the school is making some changes to how it harvests trees.

Oregon Wild’s Rob Klavins said changing the 25-year-old rule will make protecting old growth forests, fish and wildlife optional, rather than an enforceable protection.

The trees in question were not necessarily old-growth, but were older and larger than the standard “black bark” trees (60-80 years old) that are very common throughout the West Bend Project.

The change upended the Forest Service's criteria for tree protection, replacing its old 21-foot standard with one that allowed timber sales for trees up to 30 feet in diameter. In January 2021 — just ...