In most cases, temperate forests regenerating naturally ... Their capacity to reach the status of old growth forest may still be slow. Passive regeneration can be cost effective as management ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Forest Service announced a final plan today to eliminate roadless-rule protections in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, opening vast swaths of irreplaceable old-growth temperate ...

This sweeping policy is often credited with preserving large, old trees in the West Coast’s temperate ... national old growth policy will have “no effect” on the Northwest Forest Plan ...

The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry. The move was announced by U.S ...

In 2022, Biden issued an Earth Day executive order aimed at protecting old-growth forests. “Our forests are our planet’s lungs. They literally are recycling and cycling CO2 out of the atmosphere.

This region is also home to the Tongass National Forest, the largest national forest in North America, with some of the largest remaining stands of old-growth, temperate rainforest in the world. But ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry.

The forests ... acres of temperate rainforest in the northwest corner of the island, is under threat from Australia’s logging industry. Middendorf said the native old growth trees in the Tarkine ...