Smoke may be visible in Augusta, Amherst, Rockbridge and Nelson counties today as fire specialists conduct a prescribed burn ...

Though fire risk is generally lower in the eastern U.S. than out west, Georgia's national forest lands are not immune to ...

One of The Nature Conservancy's lesser visited West Virginia nature preserves is becoming more visitor-friendly, thanks to a ...

Kentucky hides its most spectacular treasures in the most unexpected places, and Kingdom Come State Park in Cumberland might ...

The state’s Maine Spruce Budworm Task Force has outlined steps forest owners can take in at-risk areas to minimize damage, ...

Like ramps, morels tend to favor hollers, particularly hollers of a certain altitude (around 3,000 to 3,500 feet is often the ...

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

Of the nearly 800,000 acres of trees that Helene downed, about 187,000 lie in national forests. Salvage logging — a practice ...

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

The Forest Service says salvage logging is needed to avoid fires. Ecologists and hikers worry that will prioritize profit ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna ... Great Lakes red pine and jack pine woodlands, southern Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests, and Great Basin bristlecone pines reaching nearly 5,000 ...