Sections
- Forest Protection Forums
- Fact Sheets
- Opinion Pieces
- Some of the Science
- In the News
- Videos and Webinars
- Books
Forest Protection Forums
- Chad Hanson | Giant Sequoias and High-Intensity Fire Revisited | September 15, 2025 (see Hanson's slides here)
- Matt Banchero | Invasive Mediterranean Oak Borer | August 18, 2025
- Dr. Matteo Garbelotto | Multiple Introductions of the Sudden Oak Death Pathogen | June 23, 2025 (see Dr. Garbelotto's slides)
- Sonia Demiray and Jennifer Mamola | Keep It In The Forest - A Campaign to Combat Misinformation | April 21, 2025 (see Sonia and Jennifer's slides, and check out the grassroots campaign, "Keep it in The Forest")
- John Perlin | A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization | June 17, 2024
- J.P. O'Brien | Jackson Demonstration State Forest: History and management within the broader context of the redwood region and climate change impacts to forest resources | May 20, 2024 (click here to view the slides)
- Greg King | History lives on: The changeless face of industrial redwood logging in California | March 18, 2024 (click here to view the slides)
- Colin Baptie and Maeve Katherine Bergman from the Guerneville Forest Coalition | The Battle to Protect The Russian River Redwoods: Lessons Learned from a Successful Campaign | November 20, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
- Linda Sheehan | The Rights of Nature and Forest Protection | August 21, 2023 (click here to view the presentation slides)
- Joan Maloof | The Old Growth Forest Network | June 12, 2023
- Bryant Baker | Why Recent Claims About Fire- and Drought-Related Tree Mortality and Forest "Loss" Are Overstated | Feb. 27, 2023
Fact Sheets
Opinion Pieces
- ‘Active Management’ Harms Forests — And It’s About to Get a Whole Lot Worse
- White House must redirect the Forest Service to preserve old forests
- Opinion: We've Got it All Wrong About Sequoias and Wildfire
- Guest Column: Celebrate Earth Day with Protections for Old Forests
- White House Must Take Older Trees off Federal Forest Cut List
- It Costs Nothing to Leave Our Trees as They Are, 8/25/22
- Why mature and old forests are so important for climate mitigation and adaptation, 8/23/22
- One Million Public Comments Support Old-Growth Protections on National Forests - Earthjustice, 9/20/24
- Protect U.S. Mature and Old Growth Forests - Woodwell Climate
Some of the Science
- Scientists sound alarm about phenomenon observed in trees across the Western US: 'A lot of value to humans'
- Greater biodiversity shields forests from climate extremes, say scientists
- Does increased forest protection correspond to higher fire severity in frequent-fire forests of the Western United States, Bradley et al, Ecosphere, 2016
- Frontiers | Mature and old-growth forests contribute to large-scale conservation targets in the conterminous United States
- Protect U.S. Mature and Old Growth Forests - Woodwell
- Trailing edge contractions common in interior western US trees under varying disturbances, January 2025
- The Rights of Nature, Remembered on the Road, October 2025
- Is Wildfire Suppression in Giant Sequoia Groves a Problem, a Solution, or Neither? - Hanson - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library
- Forest soils accumulate microplastics through atmospheric deposition
In the News
- Old Forests are Critically Important for Slowing Climate Change and Merit Immediate Protection from Logging
- New Trees are No Substitute for Old Trees
- Mature Federal Forests Play an Outsized Role in the Nation's Climate Strategy
- Old-growth forests are most important
- Silent Forests
- New reason to conserve redwoods — they’re best at storing polluting carbon
- Climate change outpaces tree migration; human intervention may be needed: Study
- Hidden tree bark microbes munch on important climate gases
- Opinion: Myth of open forest | Guest Column | postregister.com, 7/2026
- Microplastics are falling from the sky and polluting forests | ScienceDaily, 3/2026
- Natural Regeneration Vs. Replanting: The Clash Over California’s Giant Sequoias, 8/2026
Videos and Webinars
- Suzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other | TED Talk
- How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other in the Forest | Decoder - YouTube
- Analysis of Carbon Storage in Roadless Areas of Tongass NF - Wild Heritage
- Why no one knows precisely how much old-growth forest we have left - Wild Heritage
- Old Forests Do It Best as Natural Climate Solutions - Wild Heritage
- How Trees Bring Water
Books
- The Ghost Forest, Greg King, Public Affairs, 2023
- The Wild Trees, Richard Preston, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
- Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests, Joan Maloof, Timber Press, 2016, New Edition 2023
- Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations and Climate Change, Daniel Mathews, Counterpoint Press, 2020
- The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear, Doug Bevington, Island Press, 2009
- Stream Ecosystems in a Changing Environment, Edited by Jeremy B. Jones and Emily H. Stanley, Elsevier Books, 2016
- The Overstory, Richard Powers, W.W. Norton, 2018
- The Forests of California, A Field Atlas, Obi Kaufmann, Heyday Books, 2020
- The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World, Harriet Rix, Penguin Random House, 2025
- When the Forest Breathes, Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World, Suzanne Simard, Alfred A.Knopf, 2026