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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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 Calvert and Porter Woods Nature Preserve is a 40-acre old-growth forest located in Montgomery County, Indiana, near Crawfordsville. Identified as a surviving fragment of virgin Central Hardwood forest , a woodland type that largely vanished in the 1800s, it was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1974.
The environmental policy of the Joe Biden administration includes a series of laws, regulations, and programs introduced by United States President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2025. Many of the actions taken by the Biden administration reversed or attempted to reverse the first-term policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
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.