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The Old Growth Forest Network is a national system of protected ancient old growth, or mature natural forests, all protected from logging and open to the public. It now includes 282 forest tracts ...
In alignment with the Secretary’s direction, we will streamline forest management efforts, reduce burdensome regulations and grow partnerships to support economic growth and sustainability ...
Old-growth forests are rare — less than 7 percent the area of U.S. forests today — and are still often logged. To recover forest ecosystems across the United States, it will not be enough to ...
Park Supervisor Michael Signorello said crews are working their way into the 49-acre Old Growth Forest. From where he could safely stand on the pathway, Signorello said it looks like the forest ...
The discoveries show that diversity in this genus is much greater than previously thought and that some of its species are at risk of disappearing as old-growth forest is logged. Although fungi of ...
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 ...
Many old-growth ... forest health treatments here in western Washington,” Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove said last month in a speech shortly after being sworn into office. WA DNR ...
British Columbia-based forestry giant Interfor reaped an estimated $1.8 million in net profit from logging in old-growth areas that were meant to be preserved, a decision by the province's Forest ...
the U.S. Forest Service withdrew its National Old Growth Amendment. As a cooperator in the National Environmental Policy Act process, Johnson County was notified Jan. 7 via email that the agency ...
The trees in question do not qualify for old-growth protections ... local services that depend on DNR’s success,” Travis Joseph, president of the American Forest Resource Council, an industry ...
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 ...