"How beautiful!" Trail cameras capture unprecedented footage of endangered creature's unique behavior in forest: 'Had never ...

Old-growth forests are rare — less than 7 percent the area of U.S. forests today — and are still often logged. To recover forest ecosystems across the United States, ...

Old-growth forests may also be called primary forests, mature forests, frontier forests, or virgin forests. The terms frontier and virgin forest are slightly more narrow because they imply that ...

The Forest Service mature and old-growth forest inventory maps were created at what’s called a “fireshed” scale. Firesheds are 250,000 acres each, or roughly 390 square miles.

Environmental activists have identified federally owned old and mature-growth forest areas about the size of Phoenix that are proposed for logging, from portions of the Green Mountain Forest in ...

In a first-ever finding that could increase protections for remaining U.S. forests, the federal government estimated Thursday that more than 100 million acres of old-growth and mature timberlands ...

This includes a movement to protect mature forests, which are made up of trees that are 80-150 years old and viewed as comprising the next generations of old-growth forests.

There is no single definition for old-growth forests, because that depends on the ecosystem. Bristlecone pines can live 5,000 years. Some other tree species may only live 150 years, but if they ...

The Old-Growth Forest Network welcomed two Ohio forests to its ranks this October: Stage’s Pond State Nature Preserve just south of Columbus and the Lindy Roosenburg Preserve near Athens. The ...

Old-growth forests represent 18% and mature forest 45% of all forested land managed by the two agencies. Advertising. Old-growth forests provide unique benefits, as habitat for wildlife, ...

It's also the only forest in Rhode Island to have won designation through the Old-Growth Forest Network, a national nonprofit that works to protect America’s oldest known forests.

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 ...