The “21-inch rule” protects trees that are 21 inches in diameter or larger at breast height on six national forests east of the Cascade Mountains crest in Oregon and Washington. It was implemented in ...

Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. A new study from Aarhus University shows that most native forest plants are ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves.

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by ...

A new analysis finds global forest maps overlap far less than expected, raising questions about climate funding and ...

A new study shows that most native European temperate forest plants are adapted to semi-open, light-filled woodlands – formed over millions of years by the influence of large, free-ranging herbivores ...