DOERING: The New England Forestry Foundation recently received $4.3 million from the U.S. Forest Service, and your maps of Maine’s old-growth forests are playing a big role in how they plan to ...

Conservation advocates are urging support for a federal plan to protect old growth trees in national forests including across thousands of acres in Maine. The proposal from the U.S. National ...

The bill also included measures to promote the study of Maine’s oldest forests, intended to spur new conservation strategies down the line and entrench late-successional, old-growth forests at ...

Old-growth forests, especially those in North America, are perceived to be rich in biodiversity, ... McMullin has also built on the work of Dr. Steven Selva at the University of Maine.

In the Northeast, few old-growth forests are left and what few remain are poorly protected. By the Forest Service’s own estimates, less than 1% of the White Mountain and Green Mountain National ...

PORTLAND, Maine— Renowned musicians, authors, poets and tribal elders will come together Sunday in Portland, Maine, to raise awareness about threats to northern Montana’s ancient Yaak Valley and ...

Forests are complex ecosystems, beyond our full comprehension. But making the right call for the future of our national forests shouldn’t be nearly as complicated. In fact, some decisions are ...

While old-growth forests and wilderness areas are critical to the planet’s biodiversity, forests offer other critically important ways of mitigating climate change. The Golden Road cuts through ...

Maine, for example, has lots of forested land, but much of it is privately owned, so the Old-Growth Forest Network hasn’t yet been able to protect forests there.

Ottawa, Mar. 5, 2019 - Two Canadian biologists are proposing a better way to assess the conservation value of old-growth forests in North America--using lichens, sensitive bioindicators of ...