much old-growth is concentrated in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. All told, old-growth forests cover about 24 million acres of the land the Forest Service manages ...

The old-growth forest, covered in white, creates the sensation of snowshoeing or skiing through a silent labyrinth with pathways that rise and fall through a green and white landscape. It’s not ...

In his memo and an accompanying statement on Tuesday, Moore said that the Forest Service had learned a great deal about old-growth forests, including the threats these ecosystems face, but that ...

in the Custer Gallatin National Forest. The plan also calls for logging across an additional 9,000 acres and bulldozing up to 56 miles of roads in the area, including through old-growth forests. In ...