There are trees in some parts of the United States that are older than William Shakespeare. The Pacific Northwest old-growth forests, which stretch for hundreds of miles through parts of Northern ...

The column “Local View: Forest lockup is harmful” (The Columbian, Sept. 6) presents a view of our older forests that is decades out of date and potentially damaging to the stewardship of this vital ...

On Sunday, Jan. 11, at 4 p.m. ecologist Liz Thompson will speak on “Old Growth Forests” at the Putney Public Library, as the ...

Rick Bowmer / AP Around a hundred community members showed up to the U.S. Forest Service office in Medford on Wednesday night for a public meeting about proposed amendments to the Northwest Forest ...

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 ...

Tight Hollow is one of Kentucky's last remaining old-growth forests in the state. There are very few places left in Kentucky where humans haven’t made an impact. Tight Hollow is one such place.

Of the many acres of woodland that extend across Holden Arboretum, scientist David Burke believes the 250 acres or so of old-growth forests provide unique value for research and the environment.

The weakest showing for any of the 16 resolutions adopted at a national forest policy conference was one urging protection of old growth. Saving the nation’s oldest forests remains a priority among a ...

This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit news organization, and is part of a special project on Food and Power in the West.

For months, national forests in the Pacific Northwest were set to be protected under two major updates to forestry plans — but that changed Tuesday. That’s when the Biden administration abruptly ...

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...