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 ...

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 ...

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, 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.

Of some 18 million acres of Maine forest, only 10,000 are known to have evaded ax and saw — one half of one tenth of a percent. Most such examples of old growth — physically undisturbed by harvesting ...

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 ...

Old-growth forests occupy slightly less than 1 percent of the Unorganized Territories, the study found, with another 3 percent in late-stage growth. New threats ...

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 ...

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 ...

But don't count the old trees out, says Dave Hollinger, a plant physiologist with the U.S. Forest Service. They're good at storing it. The average tree stand in the Howland Forest is 140-years old.