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In Gatlinburg, Tennessee you can still see the eerie remains of Fun Mountain. These photos show what it looks like when ...
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.
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 ...
The nonprofit Our Climate Common has recently begun using light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, to find patches of biodiverse old-growth forest. Dr. John Hagan is president of Our Climate Common ...
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 ...
That decision by the U.S. Forest Service to shelve the National Old Growth Amendment ends, for now, any goal of creating a cohesive federal approach to managing the oldest trees on the 193 million ...
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 ...