As climate change intensifies wildfires across the West, many old-growth trees are more likely to survive and help forests regenerate and remain healthy after a fire. This park, which straddles North ...

The Forest Service, in its own words, now recognizes that old-growth forests “offer biological diversity, carbon sequestration, wildlife and fisheries habitat, recreation, soil productivity, water ...

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 ...

Government inventories have identified about 50,000 square miles (130,000 square kilometers) of old-growth forests in federal lands across the U.S. and 125,000 square miles (320,000 square ...

Old trees are back in the spotlight with the release of a U.S. Forest Service plan to preserve old-growth forests. The plan follows a directive by President Joe Biden in April 2022 to protect ...

“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 ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that ...

That’s when the Biden administration abruptly terminated a months-long effort to create a new policy to conserve old growth forests across the country. This policy would have updated all forest ...

But a new study finds that, despite this apparent rebirth, younger forests may not offer those birds the same quality of habitat as an old-growth forest—with differences between the two forest ...

Biden Administration Old-Growth Forest Proposal Doesn't Ban Logging, but Still Angers Industry BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within ...