When her mother passed after battling Alzheimer’s, Suzanne Simard turned to the forest and her research into how trees ...
The nation's oldest trees are getting new protections under a Biden administration initiative to make it harder to cut down old-growth forests for lumber. The news has implications for climate change ...
In recent decades, climate change has modified the growth of forests, mainly due to increasing temperature and altered ...
Nathan Cornell, president of the Rhode Island Old Growth Tree Society, says he has found 56 pockets of old-growth forest scattered around the state. The definition of 'old growth' varies; it can mean ...
America’s oldest trees, most of which are in the West, will get added protection from wildfire and climate change under updated forest plans from the U.S. Forest Service. In announcements over the ...
Mixing tree species can lead to better growth in the forest—at least above ground. A new study published in Nature shows that ...
In February, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) filed a notice of intent to revise its resource management plan for the ...
The Biden administration has published its proposed plan for preserving old-growth trees in national forests across the country, opening another opportunity for public input on conserving ancient ...
Old-growth forests on federal lands across the nation are getting renewed attention – and being spared the ax – under an executive order by President Joe Biden. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
The United States Forest Service (“Forest Service”) recently announced plans to amend all its land management plans for National Forest System units, affecting 128 plans in total. 1 The Forest Service ...
More than 60 percent of the trees managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management make up mature or old-growth forest—nearly double previous estimates—according to an inventory that ...
The properties became the sixth and seventh New Jersey forests to be included in the Old-Growth Forest Network. They join old ...