Timber sale production in the Chatahochee National Forest in Georgia on July 31, 2017. Conservationists say National Forests need to be left alone now more than ever to maximize carbon capture. Some ...

The Biden administration has completed an inventory and launched a plan for new rules on “climate resilience” for forests. Yet, logging continues in carbon-rich federal tree stands. Logging in Chatham ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 24—WILLIAMSBURG — Brandon Bowlin learned of the U.S. government's plan for clear-cutting in the southernmost mountains of ...

An executive order by Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove has put 77,000 acres of older forests off-limits to logging. “What we're doing today is the largest forest conservation ...

The Forest Service says its inventory of more than 100 million acres of old-growth forests is a first step toward measures to prevent losses to climate change and wildfires. More than 110 million ...

“The Monarch” presided as the crowned sovereign of the 49-acre Old Growth Forest at Hartwick Pines State Park for years. It was 325 years old when it died in 1996. This Eastern white pine was – and ...

As the presidential election looms and the odds of a 2020 rematch grow, natural resource management is just one of many issues at stake. The Trump administration emphasized logging, thinning, and ...

But despite conservation wins like this, recent research reveals a sobering reality: Brazil’s Atlantic Forest continues to lose thousands of hectares of mature forest each year, even though it’s ...

Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove speaks during a press conference at the High Peak Trailhead on Tiger Peak Mountain on Tuesday, Aug. 26. (Photo by Emily Fitzgerald/Washington State Standard) ...

Deep in northern Michigan’s Huron-Manistee National Forest, the air reverberates with the sound of a tree harvester picking up fully grown jack-pines out of the ground like toothpicks. Once the trees ...

More than 60 percent of the trees managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management make up mature or old-growth forest—nearly double previous estimates—according to an inventory that ...