Over 1 million people have called for stronger safeguards for National Forests. Will the Forest Service listen?

A stream found within the proposed Grasshopper logging sale in Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon. Photo credit: Daniel Howland FOR...

Comments call for addressing major gaps on selling old growth and protecting mature forests. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, February 2,...

Environmental groups welcome needed action on old-growth, urge future action on mature forests For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December...

Native insect outbreaks have been critical elements of cyclical forest ecology for millennia. Tree-mortality from these outbreaks creates...

The rate of forest fire spread is typically dictated not by the total quantity of fuels, but by the quantity of highly flammable small...

Mature and old-growth forests and trees provide diverse habitat for wildlife and vegetation to a degree that younger forests cannot....

Mature and old-growth trees and stands are powerhouses of carbon absorption and carbon storage throughout their lives and well after they...

Roads are necessary for the administration of national forests, but not for the protection of mature and old-growth forests and trees....

Old multi-story forest slated for phased clearcut, Kootenai National Forest. Photo credit: Yaak Valley Forest Council Editor's Note: The...

Activists gather at the D.C. offices of the Department of Agriculture to deliver comments to the US Forest Service. Photo Credit:...

Announcement advances Biden’s 2022 Earth Day Executive Order For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 20, 2023 WASHINGTON, DC – According...

Wide-ranging rule will include Bureau of Land Management forest policies. Field checking a unit of the 42 Divide logging sale, located in...

Featured: The Green Mountain National Forest (Vermont) area threatened by logging in the Telephone Gap project. Photo Credit: Standing...

Photo: Measuring an ancient tree within the Upper Cheat River logging sale, West Virginia. Credit: John Coleman For Immediate Release:...

More than 100 "kayaktivists" and community members rally in Eugene, Oregon to protest the Flat Country timber sale. Photo Credit: Fire...

Failure to protect mature and old-growth forests from logging risks global credibility on forest conservation For Immediate Release:...

Stand R45 proposed for clearcutting. Photo credit: John Coleman Why this forest is special The nearly 1 million-acre Monongahela National...

Little Flat Creek area proposed for clearcutting. Photo credit: Jim Scheff, Kentucky Heartwood Why this forest is special The Redbird...

Logging would occur in spruce stands like this on the Black Hills National Forest. Photo credit: Norbeck Society Why this forest is...