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 ...

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 ...

Maine Lawmakers Try to Thread the Needle on Forest Protections Late last year a team of ecologists came to a dire conclusion: without new conservation and management initiatives, half of the ...

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 ...

" The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches From The Salmon Forests ," published by the University of Washington Press, documents ...

Grants awarded by the U.S. Forest Service will pay for private landowners to adopt climate-friendly forestry practices and conserve old-growth forests for carbon storage and help the Penobscot ...

The Trump administration wants to open up tens of millions of acres of national forest to development. The US Department of ...

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 ...

That’s notable, as old-growth forests are rare in Europe. According to a 2021 report by the European Commission, primary and old-growth represent just three percent of all forests in the EU.