On this Earth Day, the significance of forests for conservation, community benefits and human health has never been more ...

Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes, in an effort to learn more about our forests, overcame her fear and climbed a 200-foot ...

Among the oaks, white, red and bur oak all stand tall as ecological heavyweights. Their acorns feed wildlife, their canopies ...

A voracious insect called the spruce budworm was ravaging Maine’s North Woods, killing mountainsides of balsam fir and red ...

But as climate change brings moister, warmer air to the area, lightning is increasing and causing fires in the boreal ... forest land that has not been cut for at least ten years, support ten ...

Insects that no one recalled seeing before—such as spruce bark beetles ... In summer, carbon dioxide is absorbed by boreal forests in Russia and Canada. In autumn, the vegetation dies and ...

Landscape designer recommends trees that are able to withstand the increased heat, erratic weather and shifting precipitation ...

The East Zone Fire Staff of the Superior National Forest is planning on burning 138 acres of piles ... It’s possible that some overstory trees may catch on fire and produce smoke. Any overstory tree ...

Questions also arose in recent years when fires broke out in the suburbs of Boston and when fires in Canada’s boreal ... forests with fires. A dry, sandy site like the Montague sand plains might look ...

The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...