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The Forest Service plans to protect the nearly 25 million acres it manages where towering trees still stand, the first national plan to protect old-growth forests from commercial logging The most ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include ...

This is old-time logging, Kamps said. Chain saws whine in the winter-sharpened air. Skidders clank and bounce across the frozen ground. Logging trucks back into narrow alleys between 20-foot-high ...

Beverly Law receives funding from the Conservation Biology Institute. William Moomaw receives funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Mature and old-growth forests, with larger trees than younger ...