U.S. Forest Service lands combined have more than 50,000 square miles of old growth forests and about 125,000 square miles of mature forests, according to the inventory.
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government land and plans to craft a new rule to better protect the nation’s woodlands from fires, insects and other side effects of climate change, officials said Thursday. forests on federal land were obtained by The Associated Press in advance of the public release.
Environmentalists said they hoped the inventory and pending rule will lead to new restrictions on logging.
“There’s a significant amount of mature and old growth trees that are already under protected status,” said Nick Smith with the American Forest Resource Council, a timber industry group. “We’re not calling for active management on environmentally-sensitive landscapes, but at least in areas where we can do thinning and wildfire mitigation fuels reduction. Federal land managers should already be doing that.
Environmental groups had lobbied the administration to pursue new regulations for forests that would limit logging of older trees. The age used to determine what counted as old growth varied widely by tree species – from 80 years for gambel oaks, to 300 years for bristlecone pines.
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