A 700-year-old forest lies within sight of North America's busiest highway, according to one biologist. Surprisingly, many tiny ancient forests like it are under our noses, but they're in danger of ...

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 ...

Friday is the last day for the public to comment on the environmental impact statement of the draft National Old-Growth Amendment. The U.S. Forest Service is deciding how it will manage the remaining ...

Daniel Kim/Seattle Times via AP On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden stood among cherry blossoms and towering Douglas firs in a Seattle park to declare the importance of big, old trees. “There ...

Members of Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia want to conserve a pristine old-growth watershed, Caas Tl’aat Twah, in its traditional territory. The nation has obtained a logging deferral for Caas ...

In the remote, heavily logged Yaak Valley, an unlikely stand of old growth sits at the center of a debate about what a forest is for—and how best to protect it New perk: Easily find new routes and ...

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 ...

CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, N.Y. (WKBW) — A group of scientists and community members are working to protect the ancient trees of Zoar Valley Gorge near Gowanda from potential logging plans. "It really feels ...

Sick and healthy ponderosa pines stand in the Malheur National Forest. A recent study found trees hundreds of years old in the Blue Mountains were dying at a high rate. (James Johnston/University of ...

A tree-sitter is protesting a timber sale in the Elwha River watershed, remaining perched 80 feet up. A judge declined to halt the sale, which aims to generate revenue for public schools.