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. Known as Tessmannia princeps, these giants stand at heights of up to 131 ...

Whereas selection forestry focuses on which trees are taken, retention forestry focuses on protecting features that will remain after logging. These biological legacies provide ecosystem continuity.

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.

Conservationists want to curb the logging of old-growth trees A paper published last year by the independent research nonprofit found mature forests sequester more carbon than younger trees do.

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.

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 ...

The quantity of trees suitable for logging — known as the standing timber inventory — in the Black Hills National Forest has been in contention for at least 10 years.

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.