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
This is a step which should have been taken decades ago, and is a piece of ending deforestation.
Good. Where I live (upper midwest) we had tons of old growth timber that was completely exhausted in the 1800s. All of our forests now are incredibly young with no chance to mature as they’re basically all tree farms now. We need to protect what little old growth forests we have left