Fewer wildfires burn in North American forests today than in previous centuries, increasing the risk of more severe wildfires ...

A new Colorado State University study of the interior U.S. West has found that tree ranges are generally contracting in ...

The older stands are blue magenta. Everything that’s younger is yellows or oranges or light greens. You can color it any way ...

If you saw a plan that’s already cut down 200,000 trees, with millions more in the crosshairs, you might think it’s an environmental apocalypse in the making. However, this seemingly drastic approach ...

“However, the tree species normally dominating landscapes with a high forest cover, which tend to have dense wood and large seeds that are primarily dispersed by medium to large-sized animals, seem to ...

Modern forests burn less, but fuel buildup increases wildfire risk, making fires more intense and dangerous for forests and ...

The Forest Service prescribed thinning to 50 to 100 trees per acre ... but also is seeking to offset all of its office and landscaping use. “We really try to get the water usage for our ...

landscape modification and human disturbances, such as fires, hunting and logging at a local scale.” According to Pinho, in highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, those trees lose ...

Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a ...

This ancient forest of whitebark pines thrived ... now and it's beautiful — it's a very dramatic landscape — but it's a little stark." The trees likely died because of the gradual cooling ...

"A written plan loses its meaning if no measurable milestones are in place." Irene Dieter responds to the newly released ...