DOERING: The New England Forestry Foundation recently received $4.3 million from the U.S. Forest Service, and your maps of Maine’s old-growth forests are playing a big role in how they plan to ...

DellaSala, Ph.D., chief scientist at Wild Heritage. “Today’s mature forests are our children and grandchildren’s old growth,” said Zack Porter, director of the New England-based public land advocacy ...

While innovative at the time, even environmentalists like Carol Valentine with the Sierra Club believe the plan needs to change to meet our new challenges ... and old growth forests represent ...

Political disagreements over old growth conservation are not new. Jim Furnish, a former deputy director of the Forest Service who retired in 2002, said that the Forest Service has become more ...