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 ...

Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes, in an effort to learn more about our forests, overcame her fear and climbed a 200-foot ...

I had gone into the forest to collect myself. For a sense of timelessness, amid trees here long before I got here, that would ...

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 ...

An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims ...

The Evergreen State is home to five national forests. Trump wants to increase logging there by 25% in five years.

Impressed by the gargantuan trees he saw at Washington state’s Olympic ... I wanted to capture old-growth forest, I really wanted to showcase these places that I've been to." ...

The potential loss of Forest Service rangers would reduce security at those natural areas and could lead to additional cuts ...

They argued the plan illegally authorized the logging of old-growth forests. George Sexton stands ... public media organizations in Oregon and Washington. JPR reporter Justin Higginbottom ...

A historic lodge where a famous U.S. President stayed is set in the heart of an ancient forest in the Olympic Peninsula of ...

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 ...