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

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 ...

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

The forest began to struggle about 5,500 years ago due to drops in summer temperatures. This transformed what was a high mountain tree-filled landscape into the alpine tundra there today.

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

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 ...

This phenomenon, called marcescence, adds a unique dimension to the winter landscape, and gives me something to ponder while ...

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 ...

“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 ...