Additionally, fires can also minimize the spread of disease and remove invasive species, allowing native flora and fauna to ...

Thinning, the practice of removing some trees to promote the growth of others, is a common forestry management technique, but ...

There are many different types of forests with different types of trees. Learn more about a few types of forests and the trees that populate them. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and ...

Forest ecosystems play a vital role in the global carbon cycle. While the significance of tree mycorrhizal fungi in this ...

The multibillion-dollar fund would essentially pay countries to keep forests standing, hoping for success where earlier forest-protection ideas have struggled.

In the study dataset, 381 plots were on sandstone bedrock and 184 were on shale -- a similar ratio to the amount of Pennsylvania public land on each bedrock type in the Ridge and Valley Region. There ...

At a press conference attended by environmental group leaders, Upthegrove said the Department of Natural Resources will conserve 77,000 acres of old forests on state lands. To many in the audience, it ...