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 ...

The federal government is readying to fire up more chain saws in the Northwest’s national forests. President Donald Trump’s ...

No matter how mighty a tree became, it could never be considered old growth if it became established after 1825. The forests ...

Memos from the Trump administration are increasing pressure to cut more national forests for timber and forest health.

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

Proposed changes to the Northwest Forest Plan could endanger old-growth forests in California and the Pacific Northwest. The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author ...

The “Super Truckin Sorts timber sale” is three miles east of Cathlamet, on state forest land — lands that counties acquired ...

Crucial to the integrity of Pacific Northwest ecosystems, they’re expert recyclers of nutrients in soil and water, improving water quality in springs and rivers and enriching soils in old-growth ...

the regional ecosystem management plan for 24 million acres across the Pacific Northwest. While the plan has been effective in conserving old-growth forests, it is also showing its age.

the Northwest Forest Plan has protected Pacific Northwest wildlife, clean water and old-growth forests,” Steve Pedery, conservation director for Oregon Wild, said in a November news release.