The Francis Beidler forest land near the Four Holes Swamp could be under threat by an expansion of a right-of-way by ...

Scientists have just released photos of the incredible 298 million year old buried forest that was recently found below a coal mine in Yuda, China. The extensive tree and plant fossils that were ...

The 12,000-year-old Hambach Forest in western Germany is under threat. The country's biggest power company, RWE, has been clearing the ancient natural resource to make room for coal mining.

Photos by Brian Kelley From our October 2021 issue. The Maine woods have not been treated gently these past 400 years. ... But even though the forest is old, its constituent trees are mostly young, at ...

The Forest Service mature and old-growth forest inventory maps were created at what’s called a “fireshed” scale. Firesheds are 250,000 acres each, or roughly 390 square miles.

Scientists have uncovered a 280-million-year-old fossilized forest in Antarctica, buried beneath layers of ice! He won ‘America’s Got Talent,’ but he’s still working as a school janitor ...

Ask Joan Maloof for a definition of an “old-growth forest,” an area of ancient trees undisturbed by humans and overtaken by nature, and she will not be able to provide a satisfying answer ...

The Forest Service also identified an additional 68 million acres of “mature” forests — i.e., forests that are old but don’t yet meet the definition of old-growth.

Located about half an hour west of Bigfork is a forest known as the Lost 40 Scientific and Natural Area.The 114-acre Lost 40 SNA includes 32 acres of old-growth pine forest. “Some people might ...

Old trees are back in the spotlight with the release of a U.S. Forest Service plan to preserve old-growth forests. The plan follows a directive by President Joe Biden in April 2022 to protect ...