The UK is branching out and creating a brand new national forest which will be the first in the country for three decades.

Life’s greatest treasures often hide in plain sight, and Pennsylvania’s Bucktail Scenic Byway might just be the Northeast’s ...

Ice Peaks was supposed to sprawl across Washington, from the Canadian border to Mount Adams. But politics got in the way.

Activists fear there will be a free-for-all in old-growth forests, which may inspire a new crop of lawsuits. “It might take 80 to 100 years to regrow [one] tree, but to regrow a complex forest that ...

The emergency designation covers 176,000 square miles (455,000 square kilometers) of terrain primarily in the West but also in the South, around the Great Lakes and in New England. Combined ...

Photo courtesy Micki Long. Management of old-growth stands is often a contentious issue in projects proposed by the Bitterroot National Forest (BNF). The mission of the Bitterroot Forest Collaborative ...

Forests benefit all Americans, it continues. Mature trees and old growth forests provide clean air and water, opportunities for recreation, habitat, and can help mitigate climate change. The biggest, ...

As our new park emerges before our eyes. Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Alan Bardsley was part of a group of old growth activists in 1990.

The plan protects old growth and older forests from logging to sustain threatened species, including the northern spotted owl. The plan remains in effect. However, areas of national forest within ...

While a Forest Service administrator described the effort as a "new era" in public land management ... plant and animal species and maintain old growth forests, among other things.

Forest City last hosted RAGBRAI when it served as an overnight town in 2014. It was the longtime home of recreational vehicle manufacturer Winnebago. The company still has a large factory there ...

While a Forest Service administrator described the effort as a "new era" in public land management ... the habitats of rare native plant and animal species and maintain old growth forests, among other ...