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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 ...
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.
Before the early 20th century, longleaf pine forests were ubiquitous to the southern coastal plains, encompassing approximately 90 million acres of land. But years of deforestation by the logging ...
White pine was “the first gold that New Englanders struck,” the naturalist Donald Culross Peattie wrote in his seminal 1950 text, ... and one of the defining features of old growth, is a mess of a ...
A 222-acre forest with old growth trees in Wales has been saved from potential logging and subdivisions. Mossy Point will instead become a nature Conservancy raises $1.6M needed to save Mossy ...
Located about half an hour west of Bigfork is a forest known as the Lost 40 Scientific and Natural Area.The 114-acre Lost 40 SNA includes 32 acres of old-growth pine forest. “Some people might ...
At Stilly Revisited, forest activists are concerned about protecting old growth trees and — in a valley still healing from the deadly Oso mudslide in 2014 — preventing future slides.
The World Wildlife Fund lists the Wabanaki-Acadian old-growth forest as endangered — with only one percent remaining. It is very rare to come across an old-growth forest stand, and Peter Romkey ...
The U.S. Forest Service will revise management plans for 128 national forests and grasslands to protect old-growth and mature habitats. The agency will create a first-of-its-kind national forest ...
The decision calls for commercially logging 5,281 acres, including logging 567 acres of old growth forest, clearcutting across wide swaths of forest, and non-commercial tree-cutting and burning ...
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 ...