Giant old trees are survivors. But their size and age do not protect them against everything. They face threats such as logging or intensifying drought and fire as the climate changes.

In a groundbreaking discovery, botanists have identified a towering, ancient species of tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates ...

Learning what kills giant trees is a question of increasing urgency. In 2022, a Nature study conducted in Australia suggested that the death rates of tropical trees there have doubled since the 1980s.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The U.S. Forest Service lost more than $9 million by logging trees burned in the massive 2002 Biscuit fire in southwestern Oregon, a review coordinated by the World Wildlife ...

Elite club blocked from logging giant redwoods by Susan Ives April 1, 2011 January 24, 2024. Print; Email; Save Article; More; Susan Ives. For now ...

For some forests, logging small-diameter trees ahead of prescribed burns is necessary, a consensus reached by many tribes and scientists. “But you can take it too far,” Brown said.

The Trump administration last Saturday touted logging as the next frontier in job creation and wildfire prevention, but those goals will face confounding challenges. Trump issued two executive ...

So the U.S. Forest Service set to work replanting trees. And decades later, though the Forest Service says there are no old-growth forests in the national forests of Texas, we now have 400,000 ...

Giant old trees are survivors. But their size and age do not protect them against everything. They face threats such as logging or intensifying drought and fire as the climate changes.