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Trump administration takes aim at our National Forests: Analysis of recent pro-logging Executive Orders
What do the recent pro-logging Executive Orders mean for the future of the public's National Forests?
Climate Forests
2 days ago2 min read
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Climate Forests Campaign Responds to Anti-Forests Executive Order
Climate Forests Campaign Responds to Anti-Forests Executive Order
Climate Forests
Mar 32 min read
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Over a Million Public Comments Call for Old-Growth Forest Protections
Over 1 million people have called for stronger safeguards for National Forests. Will the Forest Service listen?
Victoria Wingell, Oregon Wild
Oct 11, 20244 min read
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Forest Service urged to strengthen protections for mature and old-growth forests in draft national old growth plan
A stream found within the proposed Grasshopper logging sale in Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon. Photo credit: Daniel Howland FOR...
Climate Forests
Jun 21, 20242 min read
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Forest Service urged to bolster protections for forests in proposed policy
Comments call for addressing major gaps on selling old growth and protecting mature forests. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, February 2,...
Climate Forests
Feb 2, 20243 min read
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Biden administration moves to protect old-growth forests
Environmental groups welcome needed action on old-growth, urge future action on mature forests For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December...
Climate Forests
Dec 19, 20234 min read
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Native Insects and Mature Forests
Native insect outbreaks have been critical elements of cyclical forest ecology for millennia. Tree-mortality from these outbreaks creates...
Climate Forests
Oct 11, 20238 min read
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Mature Trees are Fire Resistant
The rate of forest fire spread is typically dictated not by the total quantity of fuels, but by the quantity of highly flammable small...
Climate Forests
Oct 11, 20235 min read
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Biodiversity Co-Benefits of Mature Forests
Mature and old-growth forests and trees provide diverse habitat for wildlife and vegetation to a degree that younger forests cannot....
Climate Forests
Oct 11, 20235 min read
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Carbon Sequestration and Storage Capacity of Older Trees and Forests
Mature and old-growth trees and stands are powerhouses of carbon absorption and carbon storage throughout their lives and well after they...
Climate Forests
Oct 11, 20238 min read
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Effects of Forest Roads on Mature and Old-Growth Forests
Roads are necessary for the administration of national forests, but not for the protection of mature and old-growth forests and trees....
Climate Forests
Oct 11, 20235 min read
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Court Scraps Massive Montana Logging Project Threatening Grizzlies, Old Forests
Old multi-story forest slated for phased clearcut, Kootenai National Forest. Photo credit: Yaak Valley Forest Council Editor's Note: The...
Climate Forests
Aug 22, 20234 min read
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Over half a million people call on Forest Service to protect mature, old-growth forests and trees
Activists gather at the D.C. offices of the Department of Agriculture to deliver comments to the US Forest Service. Photo Credit:...
Climate Forests
Jul 20, 20234 min read
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Forest Service takes key step toward 1st national rule to protect mature, old-growth trees, forests
Announcement advances Biden’s 2022 Earth Day Executive Order For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 20, 2023 WASHINGTON, DC – According...
Climate Forests
Apr 20, 20234 min read
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Department of Interior moves to protect mature and old-growth trees and forests from logging
Wide-ranging rule will include Bureau of Land Management forest policies. Field checking a unit of the 42 Divide logging sale, located in...
Climate Forests
Mar 30, 20234 min read
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Take Action: Call The White House Today!
Featured: The Green Mountain National Forest (Vermont) area threatened by logging in the Telephone Gap project. Photo Credit: Standing...
Climate Forests
Mar 14, 20232 min read
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Statement: USDA announces plans to protect mature forests while addressing wildfire
Photo: Measuring an ancient tree within the Upper Cheat River logging sale, West Virginia. Credit: John Coleman For Immediate Release:...
Climate Forests
Jan 20, 20232 min read
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Celebrating A Year of Forest & Climate Action
More than 100 "kayaktivists" and community members rally in Eugene, Oregon to protest the Flat Country timber sale. Photo Credit: Fire...
Victoria Wingell, Oregon Wild
Dec 22, 20225 min read
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Report: U.S. Agencies Undermine Biden’s Pledge to Protect Climate-Saving Forests
Failure to protect mature and old-growth forests from logging risks global credibility on forest conservation For Immediate Release:...
Climate Forests
Nov 14, 20224 min read
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More than 140,000 call for protecting mature, old-growth federal forests and trees from logging
Featured: An Old-Growth Western Red Cedar Stand in the Willamette National Forest Photo Credit: Arran Robertson FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
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Aug 31, 20224 min read
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