The United States is packed with spectacular national forests, and these special spots contain some of the most unique trees found anywhere on the planet.

Industrial forests, packed with evenly spaced trees, face nearly 50% higher odds of megafires than public lands. A lidar-powered study of California’s Sierra Nevada reveals how dense plantations feed ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

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.

Volunteers work with forest guards to patrol for loggers Revived forests boost biodiversity, soil and local incomes Jharkhand state has gained 85,000 hectares of forest since 2005 LUKAIYA, India, Oct ...

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