The old-growth forest provides habitats for thousands of species and contributes to the clean water of the Youghiogheny River.

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Amid backlash from the timber industry and some national forest-adjacent communities, the U.S. Forest Service withdrew its ...

The old growth forests of Western North Carolina took a beating from Hurricane Helene. Now they've lost a bid for federal protection. This worries advocates that the forests could soon vanish.

Hurricane Helene severely damaged western North Carolina's national forests, including a lot of old-growth trees that are over 100 years old. Conservationists had hoped those trees would get ...

That unfortunately applies to the Forest Service’s national old-growth amendment (NOGA), which despite President Biden’s executive order directing the agency to conduct an inventory of mature ...

the U.S. Forest Service withdrew its National Old Growth Amendment. As a cooperator in the National Environmental Policy Act process, Johnson County was notified Jan. 7 via email that the agency ...

The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry. The move was announced by U.S ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. After spending more than two years drafting a plan to manage and protect ...