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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...