When Slash Fuels Fire A lack of funding and personnel hampers efforts to clean up debris piles By Ashli Blow October 23, 2024 In this story: wildfire, forests
Here’s How the New Old-Growth Amendment Could Put Forests at Risk Conservation groups say federal agencies are missing an opportunity to save remaining old growth By Lindsey Botts August 28, 2024 In this story: forests, national forests, ecosystems, saving wild places, public lands
Resurrecting Southern Appalachia’s Sky Islands Red spruce is being replanted to reinvigorate one of the most endangered ecosystems By Amy Brecount White August 9, 2024 In this story: forests, appalachia
Hotter Temperatures Are Causing Trees to Have Heat Strokes How climate-change-driven drying of the air is leading to tree deaths the world over By Nathan Gilles July 29, 2024 In this story: forests, national forests, state forests, drought, climate change
The Northeast Has Unexpected Old-Growth Forests That Survived Colonial Axes Expanding the remaining patches may hold the key to ecological resilience in the centuries to come By Krista Langlois June 10, 2024 In this story: forests
The Giant Douglas Fir Tree in My Backyard Is a Time Machine This portal to the fourth dimension shows how the past can inspire the future By Jason Mark June 10, 2024 In this story: forests
For Arbor Day, Let’s Reclaim the Term “Treehugger” The backstory on what is sometimes an insult By Ben Jealous April 25, 2024 In this story: forests
Thirty Years After Its Creation, the Northwest Forest Plan Is Still Saving Trees Federal officials, conservationists, and tribes are now working to update the historic landscape management blueprint By Juliet Grable April 12, 2024 In this story: forests, indigenous communities
Why Is the Bureau of Land Management Still Clearcutting Piñon-Juniper Landscapes? Conservationists had hoped the practice would pause with the end of the Trump administration, but the war on native trees continues By Jeremy Miller April 2, 2024 In this story: forests
Who Owns the Mountains in Lutsen? Tribal rights and outdoor recreation collide in this pristine part of the Superior National Forest By Emily Halnon February 26, 2024 In this story: saving wild places, forests, national forests, ecosystems, indigenous communities