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

An effort to stop the U.S. Forest Service from taking chain saws to a section of Los Padres National Forest that is home to old-growth pines and a multitude of native plants and wildlife has hit a ...

"People often are surprised and in disbelief when I tell them that the yellow, dying needles are a function of the normal shedding that happens every fall," said Ingrid Aguayo, forest entomologist for ...

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, ...

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 ...

Forestland owners can get paid to complete their first tree thinning, said Joe Friend, forester for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. The program is a U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest ...

(CN) — Conservationists filed three lawsuits in federal court Wednesday to stop a proposed logging project on Pine Mountain in Ventura County, roughly 30 miles north of Ojai in Southern California.

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 ...

“What can we do with all our thinned pine? It’s got no value!” I’ve heard this many times over the years from fellow mountain dwellers and land managers in the U.S. West, where we are clearing trees ...

McGuire Spring in Boulder Canyon, which touches part of the tract targeted for forest thinning. (Dan McCaslin / Noozhawk photo) A naturally human need to roam and wander the hills lured us out to ...

The benefits of prescribed fire in the Southern “pineywoods” are many and varied—and because of the passion of folks who love and believe in these legal and carefully-planned controlled fires and ...