It’s usually cooler under a forest than outside the forest, but that natural temperature buffering didn’t make global warming any less strong during the last 45 years in an old-growth forest of Oregon ...

The primary threat to these caribou is the extensive clear-cutting of old-growth forest habitat. Younger forests provide less food for caribou and lead to an increased abundance of moose and deer ...

The challenge is to find forests with both strong climate-growth relationships and trees over a century old—substantially older than the length of climate data. This is especially difficult in ...

Stout Memorial Woodland in Henry County has been added to the Old-Growth Forest Network. This is the first such designation in Henry County and only the sixth in Indiana. NEW CASTLE, Ind.

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is celebrating the inclusion of two forest tracts in ...

Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone. Biologist Teresa Ryan has seen a lot of clear-cuts and loaded logging trucks. But this ...

He never mentions the latest science that considers old-growth forests the most fire resilient, due to their moist understory, cooler environment and wind resistance. They are far more resilient ...

Researchers from the University of Vermont studied the carbon storage of dead wood in streams in the Adirondacks and New ...

To check how well the decomposers were bouncing back in regenerated forests, the team placed blocks of wood in three forested areas. One site was in an old growth forest in Australia's Daintree ...

To check how well the decomposers were bouncing back in regenerated forests, the team placed blocks of wood in three forested areas. One site was in an old growth forest in Australia's Daintree ...

The nonprofit Trust for Public Land bought the land from timber giant Weyerhaeuser Co. using public and private funds and ...