Worryingly, the rate of mountain forest loss seems to be accelerating: the annual rate of loss increased by 50% from 2001-2009 to 2010-2018, when we lost approximately 5.2 million hectares of ...

Great Mountain Forest participates in a carbon offset credit program as part of mitigating the effects of climate change. “We’re at the very northern range for Tulip Poplar trees,” Zarfos said.

The nonprofit that manages the forest is launching a three-day course called Woodland Academy, held on Aug. 3, Aug. 17, and Sept. 14, to educate people about utilizing forests and how they can ...

They want state forest to be conserved for citizens in the same manner as national parks, said Janet Sinclair, of the group Preserve October Mountain State Forest. Sinclair, who was pleased to hear ...

This area, which OSU calls the Tualatin Mountain Forest, had been managed as a timber plantation by forest products giant Weyerhaeuser Company. As such, most of the trees are no older than 35 years.