UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

The Jeffrey pine, one of the iconic trees of the Sierra Nevada, appears to have eclipsed other pines to become the ...

From the outside, it looks like any other New England church building: a boxy, white structure with a single steeple ...

Old-growth forests are rare – less than 7% of the area of U.S. forests today – and are still often logged. To recover forest ecosystems across the U.S., it will not be enough to protect just ...

Forest ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of wooded areas, including rainforest, deciduous and evergreen, temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the ...

Prescribed burn season is here, and public health authorities are urging residents to take steps to safeguard themselves from ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Following the termination of Chief of Police Denise Richardson and resignation of Fire Chief Shauwn Howell, the City of Pine Bluff has begun making moves to finding ...

It was quality over quantity as Anthony Elanga scored one of the goals of the season, against his former club no less, to hand Nottingham Forest a 1-0 victory over Manchester United at the City Ground ...

The Portland Hearts of Pine are expecting a much tougher test when they return to Lewiston High on Wednesday. Maine’s first professional men’s soccer team started its inaugural season in grand ...