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

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

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 ...