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 112.8 million acres (45.6 million hectares) of old-growth and mature forest on their lands – bigger than the size of California. “[This is] a pathway to protecting mature and old-growth … Continue reading The U.S. has cataloged its forests. Now comes the hard part: Protecting them