Scheme of the tree-line ecotones in the Annapurna range with photos of trees and forests on the windward side (Kaski) and the leeward side (Mustang). Based on stratified random sampling, 45 plots ...
Forests in California are struggling to recover after wildfires. Studies show tree loss is rising fast while replanting ...
When Phillip Tafoya was a young boy in the 1960s, the mountains astride Santa Clara Canyon in northern New Mexico were cloaked in deep green ponderosa pines and Douglas firs. The people of Santa Clara ...
Researchers compared lake sediment, tree ring data and archaeological evidence to reconstruct a 1,200 history of fire, climate, and human activity of the Fish Lake Plateau, a high-elevation forest in ...
Banner image: A forest in the San Juan range of the Rocky Mountains, with dead Engelmann spruce trees alongside live aspen trees. (Credit: Robert Andrus) Bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire alone are ...
In Québec, there are two distinct types of forest: the northern temperate forest in the south, and the boreal forest in the north. These forest ecosystems provide many different and essential services ...