The value of our forests goes well beyond timber, with healthy forest ecosystems supporting abundant wildlife and healthy ...

With warmer and drier summers, Washington trees are not thriving, so county leaders hope to find more climate-resilient trees.

and ponderosa pine species for the study. “If our conditions are changing, maybe we can source seeds that are genetically adapted to hotter, drier conditions but they’re the same species that ...

According to an environmental assessment released by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, a combination of commercial and ...

With a cup of tea in hand, I am combing through seed catalogs looking for my old ... A Guide for Residents of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests” produced by the Ecological Restoration ...

ponderosa pine trees. “They grow in what’s called a branching fractal pattern,” Brazier explained. From the base of the tree, “It grows up and it branches out. It grows up and it branches ...

Flames surged through the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the Southwest, the ponderosa pine stands of the Rocky ... 98 percent of fires before they grow larger than 100 acres. Yet the combined ...

Wild turkeys can be unruly neighbors. They poop all over the place, damage trees with their sharp claws, hold up traffic and are known to bully dogs, children and the occasional mail carrier. That was ...