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 ...

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.

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 ...

Old-growth forests tend to have large trees and standing dead trees, including canopies with gaps that result from the deaths ...

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 ...

Old-growth forests tend to have large trees and standing dead trees, including canopies with gaps that result from the deaths of individual trees and woody debris on the forest floor.

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 ...