A UC Davis field crew measures a large ponderosa pine while conducting forest inventory in the Emerald Point old-growth stand at Lake Tahoe. Ancient ponderosa pines that once grew in a open ...

Old-growth forests tend to have large trees and standing dead trees, including canopies with gaps that result from the deaths of individual trees and woody debris on the forest floor. Worthley ...

Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests in western Colorado. The plan would allow commercial logging on more than 772,000 acres of public lands, including mature and old-growth trees — a 66% ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Forest Service has received more than 1 million comments over four comment periods urging it to protect mature and old-growth trees and forests from logging. A 90-day public ...

One of these is one of the most widely distributed species in Northern Europe, while another is found only in old-growth forests. The discoveries, published in Fungal Biology, show that diversity ...

On the shores of Lake Tahoe at Emerald Bay State Park grows what some consider to be the most iconic old-growth forest in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Giant ponderosa pines — some of the last remaining ...

British Columbia-based forestry giant Interfor reaped an estimated $1.8 million in net profit from logging in old-growth areas that were meant to be preserved, a decision by the province's Forest ...

Proposed changes to the Northwest Forest Plan could endanger old-growth forests in California and the Pacific Northwest. The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author ...

The national nonprofit Old-Growth Forest Network recently added the 114-acre nature preserve in Michigan’s Newaygo County to its registry of older forests. Land management at the site ...

“It’s a very direct attack on the public’s ability to engage in management of public lands, attacking our bedrock environmental laws, and our last remaining mature and old growth forests.