(AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect ... years decimated blocks of old-growth forest in states throughout the U.S. West and killed thousands ...

It will bulldoze through old-growth forest and remove thousands of acres of mature pine trees. The plan is moving forward despite its incongruence with President Biden’s pledge to protect old-growth ...

“The Forest Service’s final plan for the Nantahala-Pisgah was a major step backward. It opened up old-growth forests, rare species habitat, and remote backcountry to commercial logging while failing ...

Old-growth forests are rare – less than 7% of the area of U.S. forests today – and are still often logged. To recover forest ecosystems across the U.S., it will not be enough to protect just ...

Old-growth forests are rare — less than 7 percent the area of U.S. forests today — and are still often logged. To recover forest ecosystems across the United States, it will not be enough to ...