A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

The Jeffrey pine, one of the iconic trees of the Sierra Nevada, appears to have eclipsed other pines to become the ...

Scientist finds Jeffrey pine trees at record mountain heights, suggesting climate-driven shifts in Sierra Nevada.

Starting late this spring and continuing through the summer, the Bowdoin Pines, a small pine forest located on either side of Bath Road, will undergo upkeep and cultivation as part of the College’s ...

Coconino County is no stranger to fires, from the Pipeline Fire to the Schutze Fire, causing hundreds of millions in damages.

Dry but cool conditions in South Australia's south east are causing ladybirds to gather in huge numbers, which an ecologist ...

Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of American Foresters conference in Bellaire discussed how bark and ...

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

There are many other old-growth forests across the continent. Each of these forests has a unique ecology, but all are under ...

Photographer Mitch Epstein's years-long project highlights the majesty and vulnerability of old growth forests across the US ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the absurdly long pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these ...

Bill Sterrett stands on his 40-acre woodlot north of Gaylord. The area was one of the hardest-hit by the ice storm in late March. Sterrett had been managing the woods for timber since 1989. He ...