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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 ...
I had gone into the forest to collect myself. For a sense of timelessness, amid trees here long before I got here, that would ...
A historic lodge where a famous U.S. President stayed is set in the heart of an ancient forest in the Olympic Peninsula of ...
Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes, in an effort to learn more about our forests, overcame her fear and climbed a 200-foot ...
In 2018, three loggers started a massive wildfire that destroyed thousands of acres of old-growth forest in Washington State. Then, they vanished. Fortunately, Forest Service detectives had a few ...
There are many other old-growth forests across the continent. Each of these forests has a unique ecology, but all are under ...
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 old ...
Reed Frederick Noss, University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the absurdly long pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in ...