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The president celebrated Earth Day in Seattle's Seward Park by pledging to protect old growth trees. But his measures aren't enough.

Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— Environmental groups delivered more than 122,000 public comments today urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Interior Department to protect mature and old-growth forests and trees on federal public lands from logging.

A new report highlights several logging projects in the U.S. that environmental groups say are endangering some of the nation’s oldest forests. Among the threatened areas is a 15,000-acre swath on the Kaibab Plateau near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Plans for commercial logging of old-growth forests on federal lands have moved forward this year, despite an executive order signed on Earth Day by President Joe Biden, according to a report from environmental groups published Tuesday.

A coalition of environmental groups have identified ways in which the Biden Administration is allowing logging of old-growth forests to continue.

Center for Biological Diversity: PORTLAND, Ore.— Federal agencies are targeting mature and old-growth forests for logging, according to a new report, despite these trees’ extraordinary ability to curb climate change and President Biden’s directive to preserve them.

WARREN, N.H. — The U.S. Forest Service released a revised environmental assessment of its plan to log 880 acres of land around Lake Tarleton, a high altitude lake in the White Mountain National Forest, after outspoken local criticism. A third comment...

The Michigan Legislature approved a resolution this week backing energy independence, and asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to call off attempts to shut down the Line 5 dual pipelines. With gas prices surging amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, lawmakers who supported this resolution say domestic oil production should be a priority. ...

The George Washington and Jefferson national forests cover 1.8 million acres of land across several states, including Virginia. Now, advocates are pushing for new protections for the oldest residents of the forests. A coalition of environmental groups is urging the Biden administration to establish new rules safeguarding old-growth trees on federal lands. ...

A coalition of more than 70 conservation groups are calling on the Biden administration to protect old-growth trees from logging on federal lands. They say the trees are critical in combatting climate change.