Parks Canada will use machinery to thin forests in Jasper National Park devastated by pine beetles in an effort to reduce the risks of wildfires this summer. The work is scheduled to begin Monday. The ...

UXBRIDGE — If you notice fewer trees in Uxbridge’s Countryside Preserve in coming months, don’t be alarmed. A program that will thin an invasive tree species in the park is scheduled to begin soon.

There is growing concern across Colorado about mountain pine beetle infestations. Neighbors in the Black Forest say they’re ...

Ribbons of smoke curl up out of the forests framing the Trans Canada Highway as drivers enter and exit Banff’s townsite in the picturesque Rocky Mountains of western Alberta. There, Parks Canada crews ...

On the outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., Wally Covington drives his pickup truck through a forest choked with nearly impenetrable thickets of ponderosa pines. At last he arrives at the spot where, 10 ...

A new study on intensively managed loblolly pine plantations in the southern United States reveals how trees compete for light and nutrients, and how thinning reshapes that competition. The findings, ...

EDMONTON – Alberta will begin thinning trees around forest-enclosed communities as a way to prevent the wildfires that devastated homes and business in Slave Lake in 2011. “The commitment I am ...

The steady march of red pine trees on the mountainsides around Salmon, Idaho, and in the Big Hole that announced the arrival of the mountain pine beetle. In the past few ski seasons at Lost Trail ...

In early February, Josh Schlossberg was cross-country skiing in Elk Meadow Park near Evergreen when he came across a pile of trees that had been cut down. He started counting the rings and discovered ...

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