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I had gone into the forest to collect myself. For a sense of timelessness, amid trees here long before I got here, that would ...
Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes, in an effort to learn more about our forests, overcame her fear and climbed a 200-foot ...
A historic lodge where a famous U.S. President stayed is set in the heart of an ancient forest in the Olympic Peninsula of ...
new challenges such as climate change combined with a century of fire suppression are increasingly putting our remaining old growth at risk. Forests in Washington state and beyond need to account ...
Old-growth forests are rare – less than 7% of the area of U.S. forests today – and are still often logged. To recover forest ecosystems across the U.S., it will not be enough to protect just ...
The park would have stretched from the Canadian border to Mount Adams in southern Washington, protecting swaths of old-growth forests and snow-draped slopes and rivaling the drama of Rocky ...
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 ...
The potential loss of Forest Service rangers would reduce security at those natural areas and could lead to additional cuts to their funds and the sale of U.S. public lands, said Kelley, founder of ...