just above the Houston and Beaumont metro areas. This comes after The White House ordered two federal agencies to survey the land and quantify the number of acres of old growth and mature forest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...