Old trees are back in the spotlight with the release of a U.S. Forest Service plan to preserve old-growth forests. The plan follows a directive by President Joe Biden in April 2022 to protect ...

This sweeping policy is often credited with preserving large, old ... crowded with wildfire fuel after a century of fire suppression. “They’ve been fire suppressed, so there’s a lot of young ...

They identified 14,401 instances of deforestation — most of it illegal — covering 186,290 hectares, a loss of more than 1% of the remaining old-growth forest. The team identified two hotspots ...