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 ...

Leverett first recognized old growth in the Northeast when he discovered patches of forest that resembled the Appalachian woods of his childhood. David Degner In all our conversations, Leverett is ...

The plan also calls for logging across an additional 9,000 acres and bulldozing up to 56 miles of roads in the area, including through old-growth forests. In their objection to the South Plateau ...