Micki Long, Bitterroot Forest Collaborative We stare up, through hundreds of branches, large and small, trying to see the top of a huge, old-growth Ponderosa Pine. We think about […] ...

MISSOULA — Hikers in Maclay Flat have become used to the many trees along the trail they use, but after many of them were ...

An annual report from the Colorado State Forest Service suggests that the prevalence of Mountain Pine Beetles has increased ...

The region’s forests are adapted to fire. It’s a natural and necessary part of the ecosystem. Today’s megafires, though, burn ...

Some of the trees he analyzed in New Mexico bore more ... Flames surged through the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the Southwest, the ponderosa pine stands of the Rocky Mountains, the mixed conifer ...

The Center's project involves small-tree thinning, prescribed burning, erosion control, and road removal, and is aimed at developing policy guidelines that will set rigorous standards for management ...

When Anne Scott-Markle heard a bald eagle flapping in a big ponderosa pine near her rural Columbia Falls home last Thursday, she thought something may have been amiss. She could see the bird, which ...

It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa forests, where it normally lives in relatively small numbers, killing a tree or two here and there. It’s been normal too ...