For Seattleites, rain, moss, ferns—and yes, slugs—are in our DNA, so it’s a homecoming of sorts to wander this forest primeval. One of the few old-growth temperate rain ... Or grab a trail map and ...

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 ...

DNR put up a timber sale next to the Merrill Lake Natural Resources Conservation Area (NRCA) in Cowlitz County. The Merrill Lake NRCA included old growth forest and biodiversity, and was used by ...

The Department of Natural Resources has a long legacy of leading on forest management issues, setting one of the first old-growth forest ... to better identify and map the characteristics of ...

That’s when the Biden administration abruptly terminated a months-long effort to create a new policy to conserve old growth forests across the country. This policy would have updated all forest ...

Legal questions at stake in the Freedom timber sale fight, such as whether DNR surveyed for structurally complex forest, or just old-growth, will be familiar to anyone who has followed the last ...

CARBON dating has revealed jarrah trees up to 400 years old are being cut down in WA’s South-West ... the definition of old-growth was too narrow. “If a forest has had even a few trees ...