A voracious insect called the spruce budworm was ravaging Maine’s North Woods, killing mountainsides of balsam fir and red ...

A groundbreaking chance discovery in southwest England in the Hangman Sandstone Formation revealed the world’s oldest fossilized forest. Dating back 390 million years, these ancient trees help grow ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Protecting the most at-risk old growth forests in two B.C. timber supply areas would lead to $10.9 billion in economic benefits over the next century, a new report has found. However, those gains ...