An ice storm in late March damaged forests across a 12-county area in the northern part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.

A late March ice storm hit 12 counties in northern Michigan, downing or damaging three million acres of trees. The state's ...

Those seedlings won't survive. A common problem when planting aspen seedlings: the 'j-root.' (Andrew Hynes/CBC) Out of the 19 trees in the plot, they found one j-root.

Tree planters are hard at work this spring planting aspen seedlings in the Whitehorse South fuel break. The goal is to build a natural barrier to wildfire, by removing all the highly flammable ...

Crystal To walked through a barren, burnt landscape — over ash, dirt and the soot-black remains of small charred stumps. She slammed a small shovel into the ground, wiggled it back and forth to create ...

Sitting in an old-growth spruce fir forest, Doug Smith says he can see first-hand the impact of reintroducing wolves on the larger ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park. Long before Yellowstone ...

Charles LaCalle, a resident of Santa Fe’s South Capitol neighborhood, labored hard hoping to rescue the fir tree in his front yard from an aggressive outbreak of the Douglas-fir tussock moth ...

The relief I feel is incalculable. The proposed sale of 250 million acres of public land has been blocked from the Senate Bill. This is a victory of immense proportions. The advocacy over the ...

John Muir once said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the ...

The most trees To has planted in an eight-hour shift is 1,620. She says she won't think of herself as a true tree-planter until she tops 2,000 seedlings in one day.

It’s called a Miyawaki forest, the first one planted in Worcester. That happened last spring and today this urban forest ...

Without the threat of wolves throughout much of the 20th century, the elk devoured woody vegetation in Yellowstone, like willows and stands of white bark Aspen trees. When wolves ... not health ...