Conservation projects save more than just trees, but different forests require very different caretaking strategies. April 14, 2025. 6 min. Summary.

Hidden fungal networks influence which trees thrive, offering new insight into forest biodiversity and resilience in a ...

Dozens of people forced to leave the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon set up camp nearby in different wooded areas. A man prepared to leave his camp inside the Deschutes National Forest in ...

Chestnut trees began disappearing from eastern deciduous forests in the U.S. almost a century ago due to a nasty fungus. That has contributed to a vastly different eastern forest landscape today.

Forest migration, when tree species move to cooler temperatures as their historical habitats become too hot, ... different forest types are migrating at tremendous speeds,” Liang said.

However, like humans, different forest types age differently. Some forests, like those in our western savannas, age in ways that increase the likelihood of severe wildfires.

Moving forward, Fahey says they are evaluating the response of the overall forest to the disturbance by looking at productivity, carbon sequestration, and any changes that occurred.

The viability of our world’s forests is constantly threatened by climate change, urbanization and invasive species. Department of Plant and Soil Sciences Ph.D. student Jack Levy-Diedrich investigates ...

The UConn Global Environmental Remote Sensing (GERS) Lab has developed a new remote sensing method to continuously monitor ...

When forest ecologist Matthew Hurteau joined the University of New Mexico nine years ago, he took in the aftermath of the 2011 Las Conchas fire that decimated a huge swath of Ponderosa pine forest.

The Forest Service claims that the project will help support different wildlife habitats by creating a forest with trees of different ages. The Forest Service also says logging helps make the area ...

“Within Michigan there’s a lot of different forests, different fire-dependent ecosystems,” said Parr, an Anishinaabe woman and enrolled citizen in the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa in ...