These ponderosa pine trees, also Montana’s state tree, ran along an irrigation ditch along the Mcclay flat trail. A frequent ...

The region’s forests are adapted to fire. It’s a natural and necessary part of the ecosystem. Today’s megafires, though, burn longer and hotter than blazes in the past due to decades of ill-considered ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forest burned in the 1994 Idaho City Complex Fire on the Boise National Forest in Idaho, and little regeneration has occurred since. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!