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Mature and old|growth forests contribute to large|scale conservation ...


Logging on public lands has increased despite President Biden's ...

It is these old growth and mature forests that scientists say play a critical role in the growing climate crisis... by storing huge amounts of ...

Pew Supports Forest Service Initiative to Conserve Old-Growth Forests

Old-growth forests are a critical component of healthy and climate-resilient forest landscapes. Previous management choices, and changes in ...

New Outreach Publication on Restoring Old-Growth Forest Conditions

Recent interest in adapting forests to global change, as well as maximizing carbon benefits, has generated a renewed focus on creating ...

Why no one knows exactly how much old-growth forest we have left

'Low-res' maps ... The Forest Service's mature and old-growth inventory used data on trees collected at individual forest plots that are part of ...

What Are Old-Growth Forests? - Uncommon Path – An REI Co-op ...

Old-growth trees more efficiently curb carbon and pollution. · Mixed-age forests help maintain biodiversity. · Large, established root networks ...

Old-growth forest - Wikipedia

An old-growth forest is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance. Due to this, old-growth forests exhibit unique ...

Protect Our Climate Forests - Earthjustice

Mature and old-growth forests are also known as “climate forests” because they remove and absorb large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. This makes them a ...

How much is enough? Old growth forests - Dovetail Partners

Note that not all old growth equates to tall, large-diameter trees – some old trees growing in ... conserve America's mature and old growth ...

Protecting Mature Forests Slows Climate Change, So Why Is Biden ...

Old and mature forests are especially important: They handle droughts, storms and wildfires better than young trees, and they store more carbon.

Characteristics of Old Growth - National Association of State Foresters

growth forest conservation and can be used for planning and adaptive management? There must be a clear distinction between mature forests and old-growth forests ...

Action Alert: Comments Needed to Define and Protect Mature And ...

The federal MOG inventory needs to fully recognize historical and contemporary widespread logging of old-growth forests as the main driver of ...

Petition · Fight Climate Change, Save Mature and Old-Growth Forests

Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned, are writing to thank you for your executive order directing the conservation of mature and old-growth forests.

Forest restoration thinning accelerates development of old-growth ...

We provide empirical evidence of how restoration treatments have affected key old-growth forest indicators resulting in larger trees, more complex vertical and ...

Over half a million people call on Forest Service to protect mature ...

“It's clear that the public wants old-growth and mature forests and trees to be protected,” said Madeline Cowen, Grassroots Organizer at ...

First-of-its Kind National Forest Plan Amendment Aims to Steward ...

“Old-growth forests are a vital part of our ecosystems and a special cultural resource. This proposed nationwide forest plan amendment – the ...

Why Keeping Mature Forests Intact Is Key to the Climate Fight

While Moomaw lauds intensifying efforts to plant billions of young trees, he says that preserving existing mature forests will have an even more ...

Old Growth Trees - An honest question : r/forestry - Reddit

Old, large trees are a key characteristic of old-growth forest and serve habitat functions for those organisms. In most regions, there is much ...

The Northeast Has Unexpected Old-Growth Forests That Survived ...

Other groups are also taking up the cause. A national nonprofit called the Old-Growth Forest Network aims to protect one patch of mature forest ...

Should we cut down trees to save them? The answer is complicated.

In 2017, Betts published a study showing that old-growth forests likely help buffer the negative impacts of rising temperatures on birds, likely ...

Ageism in Forest Policy: The Forest Service's Failure to Protect ...

Mature and old-growth forests are vital ecological treasures fostering carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and cultural heritage. North America ...