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The Notice of Intent signals one of the administration's biggest steps forward in old-growth protection efforts since President Biden's 2022 Earth Day Executive Order, the Forest Service's ...
The Forest Service and federal Bureau of Land Management combined oversee more than 50,000 square miles (129,000 square kilometers) of old growth forests and about 125,000 square miles (324,000 ...
The agency’s initial proposal, unveiled in December 2013, called for amending the management plans for all 128 national forests and grasslands across the country to better protect and restore ...
“Those two facts make formal old-growth protections a matter of when, not if,” Craven wrote in an email. Wildfires in recent years decimated blocks of old-growth forest in states throughout the U.S. West and killed thousands of giant sequoias. Wildfires, insects and disease have been the main killers of old-growth trees since 2000 ...
Old-growth forests are unique, usually having multiple horizontal layers of vegetation representing a variety of tree species, age classes, and sizes, as well as "pit and mound" soil shape with well-established fungal nets. [20] As old-growth forest is structurally diverse, it provides higher-diversity habitat than forests in other stages.
A recent nationwide inventory, mandated by Biden’s executive order and released last year, found there are 32.7 million acres of old-growth and 80.1 million acres of mature forest across the ...
Because of a 1948 forest law, [5] Slovenia has many forests managed according to the principles of close to nature forestry. In 1989 ANW promoted a meeting at Robanov Kot in Slovenia, in the Julian Alps , and the Pro Silva organization was created, with representatives of 10 countries.
The Old-Growth Forest Network was founded by Joan Maloof, Salisbury University, Maryland, now Executive Director of the organization.She spends her time lecturing, writing, visiting forests, assisting private landowners, and supporting local groups trying to protect community forests from development. [3]