A second person has claimed a huge plot of land in a newly authorized community forest in Grand Bassa County, proving that authorities conducted a flawed process, requiring a redo. By Emmanuel Sherman ...

Larger expanses of old growth survive in Alaska, such as within the Tongass National Forest. There’s wide consensus on the importance of preserving them — both symbolically as marvels of ...

A member of the public looking at a map of the proposed changes to the Northwest Forest Plan, January 29, 2025. Juillerat said that the 80-year-old number was fairly arbitrary. The thought process ...

The move was announced by U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore in a letter to forest supervisors. FILE - Old-growth Douglas fir trees stand along the Salmon River Trail, June 25, 2004 ...

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University, the U.S. Geological ...

Biden Administration Withdraws Old-Growth Forest Plan After Getting Pushback From Industry and GOP BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to ...

That’s when the Biden administration abruptly terminated a months-long effort to create a new policy to conserve old growth forests across the country. This policy would have updated all forest ...

Peter Beedlow, a scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, stands among a group of old-growth Noble fir trees in the Willamette National Forest, Ore., Oct. 27, 2023. The Biden administration ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Peter Beedlow, a scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, stands among a group of old-growth Noble ...