The weakest showing for any of the 16 resolutions adopted at a national forest policy conference was one urging protection of old growth. Saving the nation’s oldest forests remains a priority among a ...

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, more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the longleaf pine savannas of the southeastern U.S., most of the biodiversity is found in the ground cover and depends on ...

Rick Bowmer / AP Around a hundred community members showed up to the U.S. Forest Service office in Medford on Wednesday night for a public meeting about proposed amendments to the Northwest Forest ...

Of the many acres of woodland that extend across Holden Arboretum, scientist David Burke believes the 250 acres or so of old-growth forests provide unique value for research and the environment.

Another 500 acres of old-growth forest will be protected in the Land O’Lakes area. The Nature Conservancy says the land has ...

For decades, ecologists assumed that ancient forests eventually reach a carbon equilibrium, absorbing roughly as much carbon dioxide as they release through decay. That assumption is now facing ...

At one time Oregon had several hundred thousand acres of old growth forests that provided habitat for animals and plants, clean water, biological diversity and carbon sequestration. Today, following ...

Each year, Justin Lindholm uses about two-and-a-half gallons of gasoline to get through the winter. It’s just enough, he said, to power his chainsaw to chop the four to five cords of logs that fuel ...

Swedish old-growth forests store 83 percent more carbon than managed forests, according to a new study from Lund University. The difference is substantially larger than previous estimates and is ...