The U.S. has cataloged its forests. Now comes the hard part: Protecting them

Environmental groups doled out general praise, with caveats, for a new inventory by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that identified 178 million acres (72 million hectares) of mature and old-growth forests across federal lands in all 50 states — covering a combined area larger than the state of Texas. “[This […]

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Notably missing is any mapping of ecologically mature or #OldGrowth in the Forest Service report. Hopefully agencies will work toward site specific identification of these #forests which can be used for management.
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RT @DDellasala
#WildHeritage published the first independent inventory of the nation's #oldgrowthforests and the Forest Service announced rulemaking would take place to determine conservation options https://www.washingto…
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Dominick DellaSala on Twitter

“#WildHeritage published the first independent inventory of the nation's #oldgrowthforests and the Forest Service announced rulemaking would take place to determine conservation options https://t.co/cbGHrOFu67”

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