Tenessee through the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and see wild Black Bears!!! We also explore the most touristy town we ...

For the species of old-growth forests, the situation is worse. "Forest habitats are modified widely in order to enhance wood production, which homogenizes and degrades them," Nirhamo says.

Forest biodiversity in boreal Europe: Species richness and turnover among old-growth forests, managed forests and clearcut sites. Biological Conservation , 2025; 306: 111147 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the trees’ pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny ...

“The dramatic beauty of the peaks, their towering view scapes from below, lush growth, abundant wildlife ... try the Ole Smoky Tennessee Distillery (three locations in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge) or ...

But a new study finds that, despite this apparent rebirth, younger forests may not offer those birds the same quality of habitat as an old-growth forest—with differences between the two forest ...

After spending more than two years drafting a plan to manage and protect the nation’s old-growth forests as they endure the ravages of climate change, the Biden administration has abruptly ...

The Great Smoky Mountains, a mist-shrouded subrange of the Appalachians, dominate the landscape, as well as the history and culture, of southeast Tennessee ... of the old-growth forest—some ...

It is not every day that the federal government has an opportunity to do something truly important for our state and our country’s precious old-growth forests. Healthy forests, of which old ...

And decades later, though the Forest Service says there are no old-growth forests in the national forests of Texas, we now have 400,000 acres of mature forests. Mature forests, which become old ...

The 33-mile route runs from Gatlinburg ... and strops include the the old wagon train road at the North Carolina and Tennessee state line, a 30-mile, gravel Forest Service Road, and a stop ...

I am writing to urge the Forest Service to ban logging and development of Washington’s oldest trees on federal land. Some of Washington’s most iconic mature and old-growth forests are at risk ...