WASHINGTON— The U.S. Forest Service has received more than 1 million comments over four comment periods urging it to protect mature and old-growth trees and forests from logging. A 90-day public ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Forest Service announced it would not be following through with the National Old Growth Amendment, which would have protected some of Oregon's iconic old-growth trees. The ...

After a forest is logged, that land is often re-planted with ... younger forests may not offer those birds the same quality of habitat as an old-growth forest—with differences between the ...

The vast majority of old-growth forests have already been logged. Most that are left are largely on federally managed public lands. As of November 2022 the Climate Forests Campaign had identified ...

The British Columbia government has extended an order deferring old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed on Vancouver Island. The extension to Feb. 1, 2025, applies to the order issued two ...