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Photographer Mitch Epstein's years-long project highlights the majesty and vulnerability of old growth forests across the US ...
In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the absurdly long pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and ...
The Mertz Grade Trail in Hartwick Pines State Park sustained storm damage with 30 to 50-foot trees looming over the trail. The Old Growth Forest trail weathered the storm without severe damage ...
Millions of hectares of old-growth forest disappearing every year ... The results, publicly available, can facilitate discussions and help identify strategic locations to foster forest regeneration to ...
The national nonprofit Old-Growth Forest Network recently added the 114-acre nature preserve in Michigan’s Newaygo County to its registry of older forests. Land management at the site ...
It is an opportunity for people to experience an old growth forest and to showcase some of the special places that are abundant in West Virginia,” said Mike Powell, director of land management ...
Old-growth forests are rare—less than 7% of the area of U.S. forests today—and are still often logged. To recover forest ecosystems across the U.S., it will not be enough to protect just old ...