Thanks to the work of a Concord University researcher and his students, a tract of forest within the New River Gorge National ...

Standing on an esker northeast of Ampersand Mountain, retired state biologist Ray Curran pointed to a fen he first visited ...

Guide John Bates explores a remaining old growth forest, the Van Vliet Hemlocks. Forest guide John Bates leads educational walks through Van Vliet Hemlocks State Natural Area, one of Wisconsin's rare ...

The newly designated old-growth forest lies within a landscape shaped by Indigenous peoples for 5,000 to 6,000 years.

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...

Step inside these awe-inspiring old-growth forests for your next moment of Zen. Soaring canopies that shimmer under the midday sun. The scent of air brushed with pine, moss and a cool big-water breeze ...

The Forest Service’s proposal to limit logging in old-growth areas of national forests was sure to be abandoned by the incoming Trump administration. The Biden administration is dropping an effort to ...

These old-growth trees, at least 200 years old, were saved from cutting off the Cascade Lakes Highway between Bend and Mt. Bachelor. (Courtesy of Erik Fernandez) In 2022, President Joe Biden issued an ...

Rick Bowmer / AP Around a hundred community members showed up to the U.S. Forest Service office in Medford on Wednesday night for a public meeting about proposed amendments to the Northwest Forest ...

This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit news organization, and is part of a special project on Food and Power in the West.

The old growth forests of Western North Carolina took a beating from Hurricane Helene. Now they've lost a bid for federal protection. This worries advocates that the forests could soon vanish.