The Biden administration is dropping its efforts to issue a policy to protect old-growth forests — though the president previously touted protecting such forests as an important component of his

The Biden administration is dropping its plan to conserve old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry

The president will exit office without securing lasting safeguards for the nation’s most ancient trees, which play a key role in mitigating climate change.

The U.S. Forest Service has dropped plans for a final environmental impact statement related to managing old-growth forests on public lands such as those across Western North Carolina’s national forests.

The Forest Service's proposal to limit logging in old-growth areas of national forests was sure to be abandoned by the incoming Trump administration.