Outside the tropics, the climate signal was starker. Wildfires burned 13 million acres in Canada, making 2025 the country’s second-worst fire year on record. In France, fire-driven tree-cover loss was the most severe on record, seven times higher than in the previous year.

During an early February morning, nearly two dozen people found their chairs in a conference room at the University of Oregon, settling to hash out the future of Northwest forests. The 21 members of the Northwest Forest Plan advisory committee are ...

The head of the U.S. Forest Service said last week that as the clock on the fiscal year winds down, the agency is preparing for the potential of harsh budget realities in fiscal 2025. In an Aug. 29 blog post, Chief Randy Moore said that the Forest ...

Alpine Non-forest alpine plant communities exist on 11 of the Adirondack’s highest peaks, comprising a total of only 85 acres. Here, scattered amongst exposed rock surfaces encrusted with a wide variety of lichens and mosses, are found several unique plants typical of regions much farther to the north.

Flathead National Forest is moving forward with a 7,500-acre timber project near Ashley Lake. The Rand Creek Project includes 4,595 acres of commercial timber harvest and 2,937 acres of noncommercial vegetation treatments in the Tally Ranger District of Flathead National Forest.

In his office at Michigan State University, forestry professor David Carter shows off an image of a virtual forest on his laptop. It's not just any forest. It's a computerized replica, or "digital twin,

Due to the fire, County Road 325 west of Lochloosa Lake has been closed between County Road 346 and Southeast 152nd Lane.

Many of the nation's overgrown forests are at high risk of burning. Under the Trump administration, work to reduce flammable vegetation fell by more than a million acres compared to previous years.