Category: forest conservation

Area Larger Than California: Federal Govt Identifies Old-Growth, Mature Forests

More than 175,000 square miles (453,000 square kilometers) of old-growth and mature forests have been identified on U.S. government land, an inventory report released on Thursday has revealed. The federal government’s first-ever national inventory of mature and old-growth forests (pdf) on federal land revealed more expanses of older trees than researchers had earlier estimated. Most…


Area Larger Than California: Federal Government Identifies Old-Growth, Mature Forests

More than 175,000 square miles (453,000 square kilometers) of old-growth and mature forests have been identified on U.S. government land, an inventory report released on Thursday has revealed. The federal government’s first-ever national inventory of mature and old-growth forests (pdf) on federal land revealed more expanses of older trees than researchers had earlier estimated. Most…


‘Highly Intelligent’: A Forestry Scientist’s Journey of Discovering How Trees Communicate

Suzanne Simard discovered a fascinating fact about trees: They communicate and interact with each other using below-ground fungal networks, what she calls biological pathways. Not only that, she found that trees also have cognitive capabilities in terms of perception, learning, and memory. Simard’s research led to the recognition that forests have hub trees, or “mother trees”—big,…