For most of the 20th century, it was a matter of settled wisdom that the ancient forests of New England had long ago fallen to the ax and saw. How, after all, could such old trees have survived ...

Right outside Detroit a native forest has stood undisturbed for centuries—but now, the 300 year-old oaks are gaining ...

Dead trees in streams store surprising amounts of carbon, offering an overlooked tool in the fight against climate change.

Micki Long, Bitterroot Forest Collaborative We stare up, through hundreds of branches, large and small, trying to see the top of a huge, old-growth Ponderosa Pine. We think about […] ...

Firefighters said they stopped the wildfire's forward spread, but there was still the threat of flareups on Tuesday.

A new study published in Diversity and Distributions noted old-growth forests, with their diverse tree sizes and species may provide refuge for bird species in population decline resulting from ...

Some trees are more than 200 centimeters, or 6.5 feet, in diameter. Other sizable residents of the stand include Jeffrey pines and California incense cedar. Old forests like this used to dominate ...

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 ...

A group of botanists has discovered a new species of rainforest tree ... forest reserves surrounded by abandoned croplands, and initial assessments suggest some of them could be up to 3,000 years old.