ROANE COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — West Virginia is a great state to hike but if you live in the Kanawha Valley area, you may feel a little detached from the core of hiking country. However, right up the ...

Leverett first recognized old growth in the Northeast when he discovered patches of forest that resembled the Appalachian woods of his childhood. David Degner In all our conversations, Leverett is ...

But perhaps the most familiar old-growth forests are the complex ... Great Lakes red pine and jack pine woodlands, southern Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests, and Great Basin bristlecone ...

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 ...

The good news? Michigan’s most-visited Old Growth forests is standing tall − at least for now. Park Supervisor Michael Signorello said crews are working their way into the 49-acre Old Growth ...