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 ...

“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 ...

The executive order directs the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service to inventory mature and old-growth forests and analyze reforestation opportunities, among other measures to ensure ...

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 ...

That’s when the Biden administration abruptly terminated a months-long effort to create a new policy to conserve old growth forests across the country. This policy would have updated all forest ...

But a new study finds that, despite this apparent rebirth, younger forests may not offer those birds the same quality of habitat as an old-growth forest—with differences between the two forest ...

Despite their essential role in ecosystems and years of controversy over their loss, these forests are often still targeted for logging. The National Old-Growth Amendment, open for public comment ...

Some of Washington’s most iconic mature and old-growth forests are at risk of degradation despite standing on federal lands. These forests, rich in biodiversity and storing vast amounts of ...

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 ...