From bark patterns to pit-and-mound topography, these 10 clues help hikers identify old-growth forests on their next ...

The naturalist John Muir once wrote that “between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” That’s the experience of hiking through the piney woods of East Texas, where one enters the wild, can ...

Each year, Justin Lindholm uses about two-and-a-half gallons of gasoline to get through the winter. It’s just enough, he said, to power his chainsaw to chop the four to five cords of logs that fuel ...

Polk County's Valley of the Giants is among the old growth forests listed as potential sites for a federal logging expansion.

For more than a century, common wisdom held that the original forest of the Adirondacks was largely erased. A new wave of research reveals more old growth than previously thought.

There are trees in some parts of the United States that are older than William Shakespeare. The Pacific Northwest old-growth forests, which stretch for hundreds of miles through parts of Northern ...

James Johnston has been studying trees in the Blue Mountains that are older than America, and he’s disturbed by how many trees, after surviving for a few centuries or longer, died during a single ...