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Leah Nash/special to ProPublicaIn Oregon鈥檚 Coast Range, mature forests can absorb more carbon per acre than almost any other on the planet. Yet logging here continues at a steady pace, putting the environment at risk. -
Courtesy of Brett Lovelace/OSUThe Biden administration has published its proposed plan for preserving old-growth trees in national forests across the country, opening another opportunity for public input on conserving ancient trees.
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Protestors have moved into another Bureau of Land Management project area in Southern Oregon after claiming their tree-sitting prevented construction of a logging road in April. -
A judge has ruled that the Bureau of Land Management鈥檚 use of commercial logging in southwestern Oregon violates federal law by threatening old-growth forest habitat. -
A logging company has canceled a proposed road within a Bureau of Land Management project in Josephine County. Activists had claimed that construction of the route threatened old-growth trees. -
Old-growth trees provide vital wildlife habitat, help forest ecosystems and store massive amounts of carbon. But some activists in Southern Oregon claim the Bureau of Land Management is allowing the logging of old-growth trees despite recent calls by the Biden administration for protection.
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A coalition of conservation groups and activists has blocked a logging site and filed a legal complaint over another area with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. -
Changes to the U.S. Forest Service鈥檚 national and Northwest forest plans should protect more old-growth trees from wildfire and climate change. -
The groups want more old-growth stands and a watershed included in the state鈥檚 landmark Western Forests Habitat Conservation Plan. -
U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act. -
America's oldest trees store vast amounts of carbon. Counting them is the first step to preserving them, says the Biden administration. -
The world took notice of the summer's fires in the Amazon region of Brazil. The tropical rainforests are often called "the Earth's lungs" for the oxygen鈥� -
Science has a better grasp over time of how old-growth forest ecosystems work. But the study area is relatively small, given how much of the ancient鈥� -
Any discussion of forestry in Oregon usually gets around to old growth forests. As you follow the debate over cutting or preserving them, you may wonder鈥�
