An executive order issued Friday directs federal personnel to increase timber quotas by 25% on 113 million acres of national ...

The region’s forests are adapted to fire. It’s a natural and necessary part of the ecosystem. Today’s megafires, though, burn ...

An annual report from the Colorado State Forest Service suggests that the prevalence of Mountain Pine Beetles has increased ...

A UC Davis field crew measures a large ponderosa pine while conducting forest inventory in the Emerald Point old-growth stand at Lake Tahoe. Ancient ponderosa pines that once grew in a open ...

Among other restoration initiatives, the Center is working at the landscape scale on an innovative, collaborative on-the-ground project on the Gila National Forest to develop systems for restoring ...

MISSOULA — Hikers in Maclay Flat have become used to the many trees along the trail they use, but after many of them were ...

The U.S. Forest Service is aiming to address local wildfire risk through ‘Sandpoint South’ — a proposed 2026 initiative to ...

She and a crew of a few dozen with the forest service started a controlled burn on a cool November day with very light winds in Coconino County. “Ponderosa Pine litter is extreme flammable ...

A forest die-off disrupts everything ... MontanaOn a ranch near Seeley Lake, a worker sprays a ponderosa pine with insecticide to fend off beetles. But spraying whole forests every year would ...