MY TWO-WEEK VISIT WAS bookended by a pair of annual mushroom festivals, scheduled to align with what was supposed to be peak mushroom season. At the beginning of my trip was the Yachats Mushroom ...

Hikers enter a 20-acre tract of mature forest in Charleston’s Wallace Hartman Preserve on April 5, 2025, that was inducted into the Old Growth Forest Network earlier this month.

The Golden State might have more campgrounds than any other in the U.S.—and more visitors, too. From desert to coast to mountains, here are the best uncrowded spots to get a site.

Rare species found in old-growth forest One of the new species described is Piloderma fugax . It appears to be rare and was found close to Gällivare in Sweden and in Trøndelag in Norway.

Instead, Safford said conserving old-growth forest at Lake Tahoe and other fire-dependent ecosystems means actively managing the forest in ways that replicate the essential ecological roles of fire.

On the shores of Lake Tahoe at Emerald Bay State Park grows what some consider to be the most iconic old-growth forest in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Giant ponderosa pines — some of the last remaining ...

On the shores of Lake Tahoe at Emerald Bay State Park grows what some consider to be the most iconic old-growth forest in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Giant ponderosa pines — some of the last remaining in ...

BUFFALO — Amid backlash from the timber industry and some national forest-adjacent communities, the U.S. Forest Service withdrew its National Old Growth Amendment.

Biden admin nixes old-growth forest plan. By Marc Heller | 01/08/2025 01:34 PM EST . The Forest Service’s proposal to limit logging in old-growth areas of national forests was sure to be ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry. The ...

FILE – Peter Beedlow, a scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, stands among a group of old-growth Noble fir trees in the Willamette National Forest, Ore., Oct. 27, 2023.