Indiana's old-growth forests • Bendix Woods Nature Preserve: St. Joseph County, 27 acres, owned by County Park and Recreation Board. • Part of the Big Walnut Preserve: Putnam County, 121 acres ...

In 1991, for example, the U.S. Forest Service and the nonprofit Wilderness Society each released its own inventory of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest and northern California.

It estimates more than 99% of old-growth forests in the eastern U.S. have already been removed or ... located on Ohio’s border with Indiana, farmers set aside two stands of trees roughly 100 ...

This includes a movement to protect mature forests, which are made up of trees that are 80-150 years old and viewed as comprising the next generations of old-growth forests.

"Monroe State Forest has, perhaps, 70 acres of old growth. The oldest tree we have dated in that watershed is a 450-year old hemlock. Mohawk has the largest collection of trees more than 150 feet in ...

Environmental activists have identified federally owned old and mature-growth forest areas about the size of Phoenix that are proposed for logging, from portions of the Green Mountain Forest in ...

Dear EarthTalk: How much “old-growth” forest is left in the U.S. today, and what are we doing to protect it? – Paul Belaire, Chico, CA Scientists have found it tough to settle on a precise ...

There are an estimated 1.11 billion hectares of old-growth forest left on Earth — an area roughly the size of Europe — as reported by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO ...

"Old growth doesn't always mean big," says Keith Kintigh, a forest certification and conservation specialist with the Michigan DNR. He notes that some of Michigan's oldest trees are like the ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the trees’ pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny ...

In a tasty test of forest species diversity, a brewer teams up with a conservation group to make beer using wild yeast from an old growth forest near Portland. April 5, 2025 contribute now ...