The most ancient trees still standing in America’s national forests would get new protections under a proposal the Biden administration announced Tuesday that would ban most logging in groves that play a vital role in fighting climate change.
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Biden moves to ban most old-growth logging in national forests
The Forest Service plans to protect the nearly 25 million acres it manages where towering trees still stand, the first national plan to protect old-growth forests from commercial logging
Updated December 19, 2023 at 12:42 p.m. EST|Published December 19, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. EST