Of the many acres of woodland that extend across Holden Arboretum, scientist David Burke believes the 250 acres or so of old-growth forests provide unique value for research and the environment ...

For the species of old-growth forests, the situation is worse. "Forest habitats are modified widely in order to enhance wood production, which homogenizes and degrades them," Nirhamo says.

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 ...

Protecting old growth forests was also found to lead to benefits in tourism and recreation — $300 million in the Prince George TSA and $491 million in the Okanagan TSA — and non-timber forests ...

The paper poignantly acknowledges the loss of the Beaver Creek Pinery old-growth forest on the Lassen National Forest to the 2024 Park Fire. Plans to reduce fuels in that stand had been discussed ...

The Old-Growth Forest Network is a nationwide nonprofit organization with volunteers across the country who find the last remnants of old-growth forests. Founded in 2012, OGFN has more than 275 ...

That decision by the U.S. Forest Service to shelve the National Old Growth Amendment ends, for now, any goal of creating a cohesive federal approach to managing the oldest trees on the 193 million ...

The Forest Service also published a letter Moore wrote to regional officials. That letter cited “place-based differences that we will need to understand in order to conserve old growth forests.” ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry. The ...

FILE - Peter Beedlow, a scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, stands among a group of old-growth Noble fir trees in the Willamette National Forest, Ore., Oct. 27, 2023.

Old-Growth Forest Network's goal is to identify at least one pocket of old-growth forest in every county of the U.S., said Leona Addie, Old-Growth Forest Network's Great Lakes regional manager.

The president uncapped his pen, preparing to sign an executive order to protect mature and old-growth forests on federal lands. “I just think this is the beginning of a new day,” Biden said.