Each year, Justin Lindholm uses about two-and-a-half gallons of gasoline to get through the winter. It’s just enough, he said, to power his chainsaw to chop the four to five cords of logs that fuel ...
The naturalist John Muir once wrote that “between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” That’s the experience of hiking through the piney woods of East Texas, where one enters the wild, can ...
Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone. Biologist Teresa Ryan has seen a lot of clear-cuts and loaded logging trucks. But this ...
James Johnston has been studying trees in the Blue Mountains that are older than America, and he’s disturbed by how many trees, after surviving for a few centuries or longer, died during a single ...
JUNEAU, Alaska— A coalition of conservation groups, Alaska tribes, a commercial fishing advocacy group and an ecotourism operator today filed a request to intervene in a timber industry legal ...
Daniel Kim/Seattle Times via AP On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden stood among cherry blossoms and towering Douglas firs in a Seattle park to declare the importance of big, old trees. “There ...
A conservation photographer based out of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, recently shared a powerful photo project that memorializes old-growth trees and shows the destructive effects of logging.
The U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a plan to harvest over 5,000 acres of trees in the Tongass National Forest, just east of Ketchikan. A majority of that will be old-growth trees, which ...