Old growth forests in the U.S. could get protection under a new directive aimed at helping these ancient trees survive multiple threats
mandating the first inventory of the nation’s mature and old-growth forests. The order requires federal scientists to detail the specific threats posed to each forest.
There are mosses and broken, leaning snags of branches; cracked trunks; broken treetops; multiple varieties of trees; downed “nurse logs” that host new growth as they decay; and tree canopies of varying sizes and shapes. All of those differences over time have created pockets for a wide variety of life.
In the 1980s, decades of clearcutting threatened to extinguish spotted owls, a shy and charismatic coffee-colored species that had come to symbolize the complex value of forests across Washington, Oregon, and northern California.
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